Author: Rowles, Charlotte
Biography:
ROWLES, Charlotte (1796-1876: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 13 Mar. 1796 at Chard, Somerset, the eldest daughter of Samuel Rowles (1743-1820), the Baptist minister, and his wife Charlotte Weston (1763-1869) who had married 19 Nov. 1793 at Old Church St. Pancras. She was later rebaptised on 14 June 1824 at Stanwell, Poyle Chapel (Independent). She was a witness at her sister’s wedding in 1832, was a frequent visitor at their home in Ross, Herefordshire, and is recorded in the Censuses 1841-1861. She published Nadaber (1829) with her sister Martha Rowles (later Smith) (q.v., 1804-1864) and, under her own name, Eastern Scenes (1835). Her death notice mentions an unnamed further volume but it has not been traced and is possibly a misreading of the 1867 Stainforth catalogue which listed her two known works along with Elizabeth Rowse (q.v.), Outlines (1808/1811/1833). The sisters dedicated their volume to James Montgomery (q.v.) who appears to have encouraged them with his usual generosity. She died at Bournemouth in Feb. 1876. (ancestry.co.uk 22 Sept. 2020; Bath Chronicle 5 Dec. 1793; Baptist Magazine Aug. 1820, 309-312; Hereford Times,1 June 1839, 17 Dec. 1864; North British Daily Mail 21 Feb. 1876; Stainforth 2393.) AA
Other Names:
- Charlotte