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Charlotte Caroline Richardson (15 May 1796 – 29 March 1854) was a minor British poet and writer. Her life was shaped in part by the publication ''The Ladies' Diary''. ==Her parents and the magazine== Charlotte's father was Robert Richardson, a regular writer for the magazine ''The Ladies' Diary''. He admired a fellow contributor to the magazine called Elizabeth Smales, who wrote enigmas in verse. Richardson had been so intrigued by "Betty Smales" that he wrote letters of admiration, and from these and a short correspondence, they were later married.〔 This kind of exchange seems to have been encouraged by the character of the magazine that combined poetry with mathematics against the structure of an almanac. Prizes were offered to the answers to charades, verse enigmas and mathematical puzzles.〔 Her parents' meeting and marriage via poetry was included in a later poem, "Jonah Tink", that was published by John Atkin in 1823: :I took the book, within it gaz'd, :The more I read, the more amaz'd; :I saw the name of Betty Smales, :Prefix'd to entertaining tales, :Of Richardson, her rhyming beau...〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlotte Caroline Richardson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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