2 Quotes & Sayings By Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith, known as the "Mother of Christian Romance" was born Charlotte Mackenzie in 1851. She was orphaned at age five and spent the next four years with an aunt. At thirteen she began writing, publishing her first book in 1865, when she was nineteen. She initially used the pen name Charles Suter to protect her reputation as a young girl
She married J. H. Stoddard at twenty-two and had three children.
Stoddard died in 1878 leaving Charlotte a widow at age thirty-one. She continued to write, publishing her last novel in 1882, but it wasn't until 1888 that her career took off. Her first novel was well-received and within the next ten years she became one of the most popular authors of her day, publishing more than twenty novels.
Her last book was published in 1911. Charlotte Smith died on January 22, 1923 at age seventy-six.