Charlotte Elizabeth McNeilly b. 22 July 1828

Also known as Charlotte Elizabeth Atkinson
  • Artist (Painter)
Charlotte McNeilly scandalised her family in 1847 by eloping with an illiterate Irish Catholic coachman who worked on the family estate. They were, however, convinced to return and be respectfully married at her home in Oldbury. They eventually moved to Orange in country NSW where Charlotte ran a school for a time and contributed to various newspapers and journals. She was an adept watercolour art

Citations

  • Clarke, P. (1990), 'Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson: Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Muir, M. (1980), 'Charlotte Barton: Australia’s First Children’s Author’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (PXn 132).

  • (1992), 'Dictionary of Australian Artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870’, Oxford University Press, [Kerr, Joan (ed.)] Melbourne, Vic.

See also

  • 'Heritage: Section 8, plate 323'.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870