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Charlotte Skinner
A little-known novelist whose work survives through public-domain editions, she wrote domestic fiction centered on family strain, resilience, and everyday emotional life. Her best-known surviving title, The Little Missis, follows a woman holding a household together after her husband leaves for Australia.
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The Little Missis
by Charlotte Skinner
About the author
Very little biographical information about Charlotte Skinner could be confirmed from reliable online sources during this search, and she appears to be a largely obscure author today.
What can be confirmed is that she wrote The Little Missis, a novel preserved by Project Gutenberg. The story focuses on Phebe Waring, a young wife and mother left to manage a struggling business and care for her children after her husband departs for Australia, suggesting Skinner's interest in domestic life, endurance, and the pressures placed on women.
Because dependable source material about her life is scarce, it is safest to remember her through the work itself: fiction concerned with ordinary people, difficult circumstances, and quiet perseverance.