1. Charlotte Dacre, born Charlotte King, was a British Gothic novelist, and poet.
11 Facts About Charlotte Dacre
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Charlotte Dacre became Charlotte Byrne upon her marriage to Nicholas Byrne in 1815.
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Charlotte Dacre's father divorced her mother, Sarah King, under Jewish law in 1784, before setting up home with the dowager Countess of Lanesborough.
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Charlotte Dacre had a sister named Sophia, a writer, and a brother named Charles.
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Charlotte Dacre married Nicholas Byrne, a widower, on 1 July 1815.
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Charlotte Dacre died on 7 November 1825, in Lancaster Place, London, after a long and painful illness.
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In 1798 Charlotte Dacre King published with her sister Sophia a volume of Gothic verses, Trifles of Helicon, and dedicated it to her bankrupt father to show 'the education you have afforded us has not been totally lost'.
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Charlotte Dacre used some of the poems from Trifles of Helicon in Hours of Solitude, published under the pseudonym Charlotte Dacre, which confirms the identity between Dacre and King.
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Charlotte Dacre wrote verses for the Morning Post and Morning Herald under the name Rosa Matilda.
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Charlotte Dacre wrote a total of four novels: The Confessions of the Nun of St Omer, Zofloya, or the Moor, The Libertine, and The Passions.
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Charlotte Dacre is believed to be one of the numerous targets of Lord Byron's satirical poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, mentioned in the lines:.