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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LADY GEORGIANA
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CHARLOTTE FULLERTON (1812-1885)
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English novelist and philanthropist, youngest daughter of the 1st
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Earl Granville, was born at Tixall Hall in
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Staffordshire on the 23rd of September 18r2 . In 1833 she married Alexander, George Fullerton, then an Irish officer in the guards . After living in Paris for some eight years she and her
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husband accompanied Lord Granville to
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Cannes and thence to Rome . In 1843 her husband entered the
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Roman Catholic church, and in the following
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year Lady GeorgianaFullerton published her first novel, Ellen Middleton, which attracted W . E . Gladstone's attention in the English Review . In 1846 she entered the Roman Catholic church . The
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death of her only son in 1854 plunged her in grief, and she continued to
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wear mourning until the end of her
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life . In 1856 she became one of the third order of St Francis, and thenceforward devoted herself to charitable
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work . In conjunction with
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Miss Taylor she founded the religious community known as " The Poor Servants of the
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Mother of
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God Incarnate," and she also took an active
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part in bringing to England the sisters of St Vincent of Paul . Her philanthropic work is described in Mrs Augustus Craven's work Lady Georgiana Fullerton, sa
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vie et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1888), which was translated into English by Henry James Coleridge . She died at
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Bournemouth on the 19th of
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January 1885 .

Among her other novels were

Grantley
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Manor (1847), Lady
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Bird (1852), and Too Strange not to be True (1864) .

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