Lady Charlotte Elliot
Lady Charlotte Elliot | |
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| Born | Hon. Charlotte Carnegie 22 July 1839 |
| Died | 15 January 1880 (aged 40) |
| Spouses | Thomas Fotheringham
(m. 1860; died 1864)Frederick Boileau Elliot
(m. 1868) |
| Children | Gilbert Compton Elliot |
| Parent(s) | Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet Charlotte Lysons |
| Relatives | James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk (brother) |
Lady Charlotte Elliot (22 July 1839 – 15 January 1880),[1] born Charlotte Carnegie, was a Scottish poet born on 22 July 1839 in the parish of Farnell, Angus (possibly at Kinnaird Castle). Despair and abandonment are prominent in her three volumes.
Early life
She was a daughter of
Poetry
A few years after the death of her first husband, she published her first volume of poetry, Stella, and other poems (1867), under the pseudonym "Florenz".
A decade after her second marriage, Charlotte published her second volume of poetry, Medusa, and other poems (1878), under her married name and dedicated to Frederick. The eponymous poem "Medusa" features the Medusa of Classical mythology, with whom it sympathises, noting the experiences of "days of despair" and "unspeakable woe" from the time of her transformation to her death at the hands of Perseus.[2][3] The other poems in the collections are melancholic tales "on time, love and death".[3]
A third volume of her poetry, Mary Magdalene and other poems (1880), was published posthumously. As she had requested, only fifty copies were printed.[3]
Personal life
In 1860, Charlotte married her first husband, Thomas Fotheringham. She was widowed in 1864.[5][2][3]
In 1868, Charlotte married her second husband, Frederick Boileau Elliot,
- Gilbert Compton Elliot (1871–1931), who went on to serve in the Black Watch, reaching the rank of Lieutenant; he married American heiress Marguerite "Rita" Barbey (1876–1955), a daughter of Mary Lorillard Barbey and Henry Isaac Barbey.[7]
Charlotte died on 15 January 1880. Her husband died on 23 December of the same year.[7]
List of works
- Stella, and other poems (1867).[3]
- Medusa, and other poems (1878).[3]
- Mary Magdalene and other poems (1880).[3]
References
- ^ "Lady Charlotte Elliot". Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. 2006. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-0720123180
- ^ ISBN 978-0521668132
- ^ a b Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland: Including All the Titled Classes, Whittaker, 1870, p. 700
- ^ Anderson, William (1867), The Scottish Nation: Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Vol. III, A. Fullarton & Co., p. 493
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1865), Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Harrison, p. 769
- ^ ISBN 978-0971196629
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