Showing Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World by Kathryn Shevelow

Charlotte Charlotte Charke's father, Colley Cibber, was one of the 18th-century's great actor/playwrights. When his high spirited, often rebellious daughter, Charlotte, revealed a fondness for things theatrical, it was thought that the young actress would follow in his footsteps. But this was not to be.