Until recent years, Zofloya, and Dacre’s work more generally, has been relatively unknown both in scholarship, and also by the reading public. Dacre’s writing career began with the publication of several poems in the Morning Post, before she moved on to write four novels, of which the other three were: Confessions of the Nun of St. 1753-1824), who famously engaged in an adulterous affair with the actress Mary Robinson in 1773. Born Charlotte King, Dacre was the daughter of the moneylender John ‘Jew’ King ( c. 1772-1825), and her second novel Zofloya, or The Moor (1806). The third meeting of our book group focused on one of the lesser-known Gothic writers of the early nineteenth century, Charlotte Dacre ( c. Dr Sally Holloway and Jane Mackelworth report on the third meeting of their community book group, exploring love and its history through literature…
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