7-439: Frozen Charlotte may refer to: " Fair Charlotte ", an American folk ballad inspired by an 1843 poem by Seba Smith Frozen Charlotte (doll) , a 19th-century doll named for the ballad Frozen Charlotte , a 1998 album by Dollshead "Frozen Charlotte", a 1998 song by Natalie Merchant from Ophelia "Frozen Charlottes", a 2003 short story by Lucy Sussex Topics referred to by
14-412: A satire upon human vanity, so repulsive, unsightly, and loathsome a spectacle as a corpse dressed for a ball !." Other Newspapers which reprinted the story were the "Vermont Telegraph" {February 19, 1840 and a follow-up article April 1, 1840 } and "Southern Argus" March 3, 1840 of Columbus Mississippi. A version of Smith's poem was subsequently set to music, leading to the creation of the ballad. During
21-454: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fair Charlotte " Fair Charlotte " (or " Young Charlotte ") ( Laws G17) is an American folk ballad . The story is a cautionary tale concerning a young girl called Charlotte who refused to wrap up warmly to go on a sleigh ride to a New Year's ball . Upon arriving at the ball, her fiancé discovers that she has frozen to death during
28-590: The Diary of a London Physician". The "Death at the Toilet" told of a vain young woman who was determined to go a ball despite the fact that she suffers from heart problems; because of Cold weather in her room she is found dead at her toilet while primping herself for the ball; the moral of the story is a diatribe against vanity-"...I have seen many hundreds of corpses, as well in the calm composure of natural death, as mangled and distorted by violence;but never have I seen so startling
35-453: The journey. The ballad of "Fair Charlotte" is based on a poem by Seba Smith that was first published in The Rover , a Maine newspaper, on December 28, 1843, under the title A Corpse Going To A Ball . According to folklorist Phillips Barry , Smith's composition was based on an incident recounted in an 1840 New York Observer article of the same name. The story from the "New York Observer"
42-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Frozen Charlotte . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frozen_Charlotte&oldid=1224232092 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
49-456: Was entitled "A Corpse Going To a Ball" and was reprinted in an Ohio Newspaper: "Ohio Democrat and Dover Advertiser" February 28, 1840 p. 1 the article claimed that the incident in question had happened on January 1, 1840; it also claimed that this report was true [yet gave no location of the accident ]; likewise it also mentioned at the very beginning a tale called "Death at the Toilet" which in turn came from an 1838 work called "Passages from
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