Charke's tone is, like her father's, chatty, witty, relaxed, and intimate. It is a mixture of honesty and self-flattery, but with nothing like her father's self-aggrandizement. She wrote the autobiography, she said, to reconcile herself to her father. It did not work. He would not communicate with her, returning a letter unopened, and when he died on 12 December 1757, a very wealthy man, he left Charlotte a token £5. In response, Charke wrote "The Lover's Treat, or, Unnatural Hatred," a novel about families at war with themselves. She also published the short stories ""The Mercer'," and "The History of Charley and Patty" some time between the years of 1757-59.