Charlotte's decision to live publicly as a man led to being disowned by her father and siblings. She sustained herself through many careers with variable success, but increasingly found it hard to support herself and her 'wife,' 'Mrs. Brown.' Swallowing her pride she wrote to her Colley, but he rebuffed her:
21 September
Madam,
The Strange Career which you have run for some years (a Career not always unmarked by Evil) debars my affording you the Succour which otherwise would naturally have been extended to you as my Daughter.
I must refuse therefore—with this Advice—try Theophilus.
Yours in Sorrow,
Colley Cibber
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