To find our for what, you have to keep reading. The reader quickly finds out that this young lady will be tried for murder. At the onset of the voyage, she feels very lonely and unsure of herself. The families who were supposed to travel with her never arrive, and she is the only female journeying on the Seahawk. The plan is for her to cross the Atlantic with two families on a merchant ship that her father’s firm owns.Ĭharlotte has an upper-middle class upbringing and has been very sheltered for much of her life. Her destination is Rhode Island in America to be with her family. She has been attending the very proper school, Barrington School for Better Girls in England. In the beginning of the story, she is a proper young lady in England seeking passage to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean on a ship. In the novel True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, the heroine Charlotte has to grow up quickly in the summer of the year 1832.
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