author
Charles Edward Pearce
d. 1924
A prolific English journalist and storyteller, he moved easily between children’s tales, crime fiction, historical romance, and lively books about the theater. His work shows a lasting fascination with London life and the stage, especially the world of eighteenth-century actresses.
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Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
by Charles Edward Pearce
About the author
Charles Edward Pearce was an English writer and journalist who lived from 1843 to 1924. A modern research site devoted to his life and work describes him as the author of a very large body of children’s stories, newspaper serials, crime fiction, nonfiction, and biographies.
His interests seem to have been especially wide-ranging. Alongside fiction such as historical romances, he also wrote about the theater and about well-known actresses of the Georgian and Regency eras, suggesting a strong interest in performance history and popular culture.
Although he is not widely remembered today, Pearce appears to have been a busy and versatile professional author whose career reflects the breadth of late Victorian and early twentieth-century popular writing.