Charley Brother, LLC was established in 2020 by Christine Friesel, who writes short Catholic fiction. She is grateful to her ancestors: Charles Brother and his daughter, poet and writer Frances Toyne, who converted to Catholicism late in life.

FICTION

2023 - 2026

In 2023, Friesel wrote her first novel The Orphan Girls of Bath, a fictional treatment of her great grandmother’s life. In 2025, she began the online series, The Letters.

NONFICTION

2020 - 2022

The book, The Boys of Bath and biographical profiles about The Boys are factual accounts of Civil War Marine and Railroad Postal Clerk Charles Brother and his friends and family,