Introducing Charlotte Charke

by Philip Baruth

The notorious troublemaker Charlotte Charke worked as a novelist, autobiographer, and strolling actress. But it was as a cross-dresser -- both on stage and off -- that she scandalized eighteenth-century England. Known as Mr. Charles Brown, she lived openly with another woman for nearly a decade. Charke, daughter of Colley Cibber, the English playwright and poet laureate (1740), lived a life of masquerade. Her autobiography is a fascinating document...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025202415X
• ISBN13: 9780252024153
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 250 Pages