Charlotte Smith received a typical girl's education in a wealthy, late 18th-century family. Her childhood was marked by her mother's early and her father's reckless spending.After losing his wife, her father, Nicholas Turner, travelled across the globe and the children were raised by Lucy Towers, their aunt. At the age of six, Charlotte went to school in Chichester and took drawing lessons from the painter George Smith. Two years later, she, her aunt and her sister moved to London, where she attended a girls' school in Kensington and learned dancing, drawing, music and acting. She loved to read and wrote poems, which her father encouraged. She even submitted a few to the Lady's Magazine for publication, but they were not accepted.
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