CHARLEY KEENE, merry little doctor in The Grandissimes, in love with the beautiful Creole girl Clotilde (1880).

CHARLIE, alias “Injin Charlie,” alias “Old Charlie,” a “dark white man” in Belles Demoiselles’ Plantation, by George W. Cable.  “Sunk in the bliss of deep ignorance, shrewd, deaf, and by repute, at least, unmerciful” (1879).

CHARIOT, a messenger from Liege to Louis XI—­Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time, Edward IV.).

CHARLOTTE, the faithful sweetheart of young Wilmot, supposed to have perished at sea.—­Geo. Lillo, Fatal Curiosity (1736).

Charlotte, the dumb girl, in love with Leander; but her father, sir Jasper, wants her to marry Mr. Dapper.  In order to avoid this hateful alliance, Charlotte pretends to be dumb, and only answers, “Han, hi, han, hon.”  The “mock doctor” employs Leander as his apothecary, and the young lady is soon cured by “pills matrimoniac.”  In Moliere’s Le Medecin Malgre Lui Charlotte is called “Lucinde.”  The jokes in act ii. 6 are verbally copied from the French.—­H.  Fielding, The Mock Doctor.

Charlotte, daughter of sir John Lambert, in The Hypocrite, by Is.  Bickerstaff (1768); in love with Darnley.  She is a giddy girl, fond of tormenting Darnley; but being promised in marriage to Dr. Cantwell, who is fifty-nine, and whom she utterly detests, she becomes somewhat sobered down, and promises Darnley to become his loving wife.  Her constant exclamation is “Lud!”

In Moliere’s comedy of Tartuffe Charlotte is called “Mariane,” and Darnley is “Valere.”

Charlotte, the pert maid-servant of the countess Wintersen.  Her father was “state coachman.”  Charlotte is jealous of Mrs. Haller, and behaves rudely to her (see act ii. 3).—­Benjamin Thompson, The Stranger (1797).

Charlotte, servant to Sowerberry.  A dishonest, rough servant-girl, who ill-treats Oliver Twist, and robs her master.—­C.  Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837).

Charlotte, a fugitive slave whose hairbreadth escapes are narrated in J. T. Trowbridge’s story of Neighbor Jackwood (1857).

Charlotte (Lady), the servant of a lady so called.  She assumes the airs with the name and address of her mistress.  The servants of her own and other households address her as “Your ladyship,” or “lady Charlotte;” but though so mighty grand, she is “noted for a plaguy pair of thick legs.”—­Rev. James Townley, High Life Below Stairs (1759).

CHARLOTTE CORDAY, devoted patriot of the French Revolution.  Believing Marat to be the worst enemy of France, she stabbed him in the bath; was arrested and guillotined.

CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH, whose surname was Phelan, afterwards Tonna, author of numerous books for children, tales, etc. (1825-1862).