Author: Bury, Charlotte Susan Maria
Biography:
BURY, Charlotte Susan Maria formerly Campbell (1775-1861: ODNB)
Novelist, diarist, and poet. She was born on 28 Jan. 1775 at London, youngest daughter of John Campbell, the 5th Duke of Argyll and Elizabeth (Gunning) Campbell. Much admired for her beauty and lack of pretension, she spent time in Edinburgh as a young woman and was part of a literary circle that included Walter Scott and Susan Ferrier, the novelist. In 1796 Lady Charlotte married a cousin, Colonel John Campbell; by the time of his death in 1809, the couple had nine children although only two of them survived their mother. From 1810-15, she was lady-in-waiting to Caroline, Princess of Wales and wife of the future George IV. She began writing fiction in 1812; although not critical successes, her novels were very popular in her lifetime. She married the Rev. Edward John Bury in 1818; they had two daughters. She is now best known for the anonymously published Diary Illustrative of the Times of George IV (1838). She died at London on 31 Mar. 1861. (ODNB 5 June 2018) SR
Other Names:
- Lady Charlotte Bury
- Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell