author
Charlotte Skinner
Best known for the Victorian novel The Little Missis, this little-documented writer also published Doctor Phill; or, As in a Mirror. Her surviving work points to a late-19th-century author interested in domestic life, character, and moral feeling.
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The Little Missis
by Charlotte Skinner
About the author
Very little reliable biographical information about Charlotte Skinner is easy to confirm today, but her books have endured in library records and public-domain archives. She is associated with The Little Missis, which is available through Project Gutenberg, and with Doctor Phill; or, As in a Mirror, originally published in 1888.
Because so few trustworthy personal details are readily documented, it is safest to remember her through the fiction itself. The titles linked to her name suggest a writer working in the world of Victorian popular literature, with an interest in relationships, inner life, and the values that shape everyday experience.
For modern listeners, Charlotte Skinner offers the appeal of a rediscovered author: someone whose life remains partly obscure, but whose stories still open a window onto the tone and concerns of an earlier era.