Charlotte Palmer (c. 1762–1834 or after) was an English teacher and writer mentioned in the ''
Dictionary of National Biography
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She is remembered mainly as a novelist.
Life and writings
Palmer, thought to have been born in 1762, gained notice with a five-volume
epistolary novel, ''Female Stability; or the History of Miss Belville'', published in 1780. The preface confusingly asserts that it was written by "a sister" who had since died.
Nonetheless, Palmer published two more works in the 1790s: ''Letters on several subjects from a
preceptress
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Buddhist monastic orders
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to her pupils who have left school'' in 1791, and ''A Newly-Invented Copybook'' in 1797. Both were aimed at the educational market and the latter came with an apology from the woman author to male schoolteachers and the assurance that she was not attempting to usurp their authority.
[Elizabeth Lee, Palmer, Charlotte (c. 1762 – in or after 1834), rev. Rebecca Mills, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004]
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Palmer's two other works were ''Integrity and Content: an Allegory'' and the intriguingly titled ''It Is and It Is Not a Novel'', both published in 1792. An account of the latter appears in ''The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600–1800'', which was not published until 2002.[
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References
1760s births
English schoolteachers
18th-century British novelists
Year of death uncertain
Place of birth missing
18th-century English educators
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