Charlotte Brooke (writer)
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Charlotte Brooke, (c.1740 – 1793), Rantavan, County Cavan, Ireland, was the only survivor of Henry Brooke's 22 children. She tended him to his last days of decay and oversaw the publication of his Collected Works. She died in Longford, and is buried there.
Brooke was also a writer, her principal work being Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789).
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- This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
