Mrs. Robert Hoskins

Very little easily verified biographical information survives under the name Mrs. Robert Hoskins, which was a common way married women were published in her era. She is credited as the author of Clara A. Swain, M.D. (1912), a short biography of the American doctor and missionary Clara A. Swain, one of the first women physicians sent to India as a medical missionary.

Available records also connect her with the name Charlotte Lewis Roundy Hoskins, born in 1837. The evidence suggests she moved in Methodist missionary circles and wrote from a perspective shaped by strong interest in evangelism, women's education, and overseas mission work, especially in India.

Because the surviving public record is thin, many personal details about her life remain uncertain. What does stand out is her role as a memorializing writer: she helped preserve the story of an important woman in medical and missionary history for later readers.