Charlotte Charke From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Charlotte Charke, in pink, plays Damon as a breeches role in her father Colley Cibber 's pastoral farce Damon and Phillida Charlotte Charke (n©e Cibber , also Charlotte Secheverell , aka Charles Brown 13 January 6 April ) was an English actress playwright novelist , autobiographer, and noted transvestite . She acted on the stage from the age of 17, mainly in breeches roles , and took to wearing male clothing off the stage. She assumed the name "Charles Brown" and called a longtime female companion "Mrs. Brown." She suffered a series of failures in her business affairs after working in a variety of trades commonly associated with men, from valet, to sausage maker, farmer, and pastry chef, but finally achieved success under her own name as a writer, ending her life as a novelist and memoirist. Contents edit Early life She was the last child born to poet laureate Colley Cibber and the musician/actress Katherine Shore. According to her autobiography, her brothers and sisters resented her arrival when she was young and many of them maintained their dislike throughout their lives. She was educated in the liberal arts and learned Latin Italian , and geography at Mrs. Draper's School for girls between 1719 and 1721 and then moved to live with her mother in | |
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