Seba Smith was an American humorist and writer who used vernacular in print. His series of satirical letters by "Major Jack Downing" lampooned both sides of American politics in the early 1800s. He also wrote "A Corpse Going To a Ball" in 1843, a ballad in which a young woman freezes to death because she refuses put a blanket over her party dress. Her name was Charlotte, and this inspired the FRozen Charlotte dolls' name.
