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Myers Literary Guide:
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The North-East
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CHARLOTTE ANNE EATON (1788 - 1859) Charlotte was the daughter of George Waldie, a prominent Newcastle citizen, whose house still exists near St Mary’s Cathedral. In 1814 Charlotte dropped her ‘unfashionable novel’ At Home and Abroad on finding plot parallels with Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage. She revised and published it in 1831. Her brief ‘Circumstantial Detail’ by a ‘near Observer’ appeared in her Battle of Waterloo, in which her artist sister, Jane Watts, supplied a sketch of the terrain. Both had been in Brussels at the time. This went through ten editions by 1817, when her family published her longer Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, by ‘an Englishwoman’, which recreates suspense, horror yet delight in English greatness and glory. It was reprinted under various titles until 1888. Rome in the Nineteenth Century (1820) also achieved popularity. In 1822 she married Stamford banker Stephen Eaton and had four children. Continental Adventures (1826) also anonymous combines genuine travel experience with a fictional story-line. Her adventurous, intelligent , humane women often see men as ‘subordinate things.’ She died in London. .
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