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Charlotte was Australia s first children s author. Under the pen name of A Lady Long Resident in New South Wales , she wrote and illustrated
A Mother s Offering to Her Children in 1841.
Before writing her landmark book Charlotte s dramatic shifts in fortune included falling in love at sea, losing her husband young, being brutalised by bushrangers, and becoming a penniless single mother who took her fight to the Supreme Court.
Growing up, author and fairytale specialist, Kate Forysth, was enchanted by stories of her distant forebear, Charlotte, and the grand sandstone house in which she d once lived. Romance and mystery swirled around her great great great great grandmother s life in Regency England and colonial New South Wales.