Charlotte Fell Smith (2 January 1851 – 7 May 1937) was an English historian born at

Pattiswick Pattiswick is a village near the A120 road, and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bradwell, in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 297. On 1 April 1949 the parish was abolished ...

Hall,

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, to Joseph Smith (1813–1904), farmer, and his wife, Mary.

Writings

Charlotte Fell Smith was the author of the first biography of

John Dee John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, teacher, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divinatio ...

in 1909. She was also a contributor to the ''

Dictionary of National Biography The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September ...

''.

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* British historians 1851 births 1937 deaths British biographers People from Essex People from Braintree District {{UK-historian-stub