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"A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1755
"As I grew up, I too soon perceived a rancourous Disposition towards me, attended with Malice prepense, to destroy that Power I had in the Hearts of both my Parents, where I was perhaps judged to sit too triumphant, and maintained my Seat of Empire in my Mother's to her latest Moments."
preview | full record— Charke [née Cibber; other married name Sacheverell], Charlotte [alias Mr Brown] (1713-1760)