Charlotte Cory

CHARLOTTE CORY, born Bristol England, is an acclaimed artist and writer. After a PhD in 15th Century literature she published three novels with Faber and Faber to critical acclaim: THE UNFORGIVING (1991), THE LAUGHTER OF FOOLS (1993) and THE GUEST (1996). she won an Arts Council of England Award for her fiction. She has had numerous original plays, short stories and drama series commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and has written regularly for magazines and newspapers, including the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Country Life and many others.

She won a short story competition in the Spectator when still at school, ran a literary magazine The Bark & the Bite while at university. THE LEMON PAINTERS (Calque Press, 2020) is her first short story collection.

Charlotte Cory's artworks, often described as 'visual short stories', form an intriguing alternative 19th century based on reworked, montaged Victorian carte de visite photography. These have been exhibited in galleries all over the world including the Brontė Parsonage Museum in Haworth, the Globe Theatre and Sir John Soane's Museum in London. Her work is in the Royal Collection at Windsor. Her most recent exhibition TELLING TAILS in December 2022 was at the very Bloomsbury "Woolff Gallery" in Charlotte St, London W1.

Charlotte Cory lives between Greenwich, London, on the River Thames and Sancerre on the River Loire in central France. Her passions include toy theatre and dogs (she has a wire haired fox terrier - just like Tintin's Snowy - called Bessie)

instagram: @charlottecory_artist