Category Archives: Charlotte

Jane Austen includes three Charlottes among her works, Miss Lucas, Mrs. Palmer and Miss Heywood. for the first two, one would think that she did not like the name very much, though there are articles that suggest that she was … Continue reading →

Charlotte Buff-Kestner became famous because the 23-year-old poet Goethe, at the time still almost unknown, fell passionately in love with her in the summer of 1772. Although this love could not be fulfilled, since Charlotte was already promised to Johann … Continue reading →

Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d’Armont (1768 – 1793), known to history as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in … Continue reading →

  Charlotte Salomon (1917 – 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theatre?: A Song-play) consisting of 769 individual … Continue reading →

Charlotte Harris is a portrait artist who was born in Ashford, Kent in 1981 and currently works from her studio in Folkestone. Harris studied at Leeds Metropolitan University, during which time she worked as a studio assistant for the artist … Continue reading →

Charlotte Mount Brock Schreiber (1834–1922) was an English-Canadian painter and illustrator, considered among the first and finest of Canada’s female painters. Born in Colchester, Essex, England, she was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, Rev. Robert Price Morrell, lover of … Continue reading →

When I first began ego-surfing, building my author platform, the person who showed up 95% of the time was Charlotte Elizabeth Babb (1830- 1906), or rather, a print of an oil painting that she did, The Annunciation.  The story of … Continue reading →