Charlotte A. (Charlotte Anne) Eaton

Born Charlotte Anne Waldie in 1788, she became an English travel writer, memoirist, and novelist. Reliable reference sources describe her as the daughter of George Waldie of Hendersyde Park, Roxburghshire, and note that she later married Stephen Eaton.

She is especially remembered for Narrative of a Residence in Belgium during the Campaign of 1815, a work connected to her experience of Belgium during the Waterloo campaign, and for Rome in the Nineteenth Century, which helped establish her reputation as a perceptive travel writer. Her work combines historical interest with close attention to scenery, society, and everyday detail.

Eaton died in 1859. Though not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, she remains of real interest to readers of Romantic-era travel writing and women's life writing.