Author: Seymour, Charlotte
Biography:
SEYMOUR, Charlotte (fl 1803)
Her only known publication, The Powers of Imagination . . . written at the Age of Sixteen (1803), has a frontispiece portrait of the author, who has dark curls and is fashionably dressed. There is no subscription list or dedication, just a serious preface explaining the organization of the work and begging the reader’s indulgence under the circumstances. That suggests a well-to-do family. If she was still sixteen at the time of publication she would have been born about 1787. The MR review said coldly that although it was “a surprising effort for a female of her years,” she would have been well advised to wait the statutory nine years before deciding to publish. There are no internal clues as to her background. She might have been the Charlotte Seymour who married Thomas Robinson at St. Anne’s, Soho, in 1811 but confirmation is lacking. (ancestry.com 10 Oct. 2024; findmypast.com 10 Oct. 2024; MR 43 [1804], 183-5)
Other Names:
- Miss Charlotte Seymour