Charlotte E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Chittenden

Charlotte E. Chittenden is a fairly obscure author, and the most clearly verifiable information available in this search is tied to her published work rather than a well-documented public biography. Project Gutenberg lists What Two Children Did under her name, and library-style author pages preserve the fuller form of her name as Charlotte Elizabeth Chittenden.

Based on the work currently easy to confirm, she appears to have written fiction for younger readers, with an emphasis on children’s experiences and home-centered storytelling. What Two Children Did has continued to circulate in digital public-domain collections, which is often how readers encounter authors like her today.

Because reliable biographical sources are limited, details about her life beyond her name and authorship are hard to confirm confidently from the material found here. That scarcity itself is part of her story: she belongs to a group of once-published writers whose books outlasted the public record around them.