# Charlotte Palmer

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**Charlotte Palmer** (c. 1762–1834 or after) was an English teacher and writer mentioned in the *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*.[1] She is remembered mainly as a novelist.

## Life and writings

Palmer, thought to have been born in 1762, gained notice with a five-volume [epistolary novel](/source/Epistolary_novel), *Female Stability; or the History of Miss Belville*, published in 1780. The preface asserts that the book is a true story written by a sister who had since died.

Palmer published two more works in the 1790s: *Letters on several subjects from a [preceptress](/source/Preceptor) to her pupils who have left school* in 1791, and *A Newly-Invented Copybook* in 1797. Both were aimed at the educational market and the latter came with an apology from the woman author to male schoolteachers and the assurance that she was not attempting to usurp their authority.[2]

Palmer's two other works were *Integrity and Content: an Allegory* and the intriguingly titled *It Is and It Is Not a Novel*, both published in 1792. An account of the latter appears in *The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600–1800*, which was not published until 2002.[3]

Palmer continued to run schools until she was arrested for debt. In time she cleared the debt and was last identified in 1834.[2]

## References

1. Elizabeth Lee, Palmer, Charlotte (c. 1762 – in or after 1834), rev. Rebecca Mills, *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004) [accessed 16 March 2015](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21178,)

1. Moore, Steven (2013). [*The novel: an alternative history, 1600 to 1800*](https://books.google.com/books?id=yWNBAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA891). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 891. ISBN 978-1623565190.

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