Charlotte Baden

Charlotte Baden (21 November 1740, Copenhagen – 6 June 1824, Copenhagen) was a Danish epistolary author and letter-writer. The majority of her work was published in periodicals, and often used a letter format to focus on the inner lives of women.

Baden is credited with established an epistolary literary tradition in Denmark, which was later developed by Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd and Mathilde Fibiger. Today, she is best known for her 1784 epistolary novel Den fortsatte Grandison, which was a continuation of Samuel Richardson’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison.