Charlotte Smith
a critical biography
by Loraine Fletcher
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was born into the landed gentry and married off at 15, on the insistence of a hostile stepmother, to a wastrel from a West Indian family whose money came from the slave trade. When her husband's fecklessness forced her to support herself and their nine surviving children alone, she at once became a celebrated poet and novelist.
Writing at the time of the French Revolution, she wanted change in England too and commented sharply on the injustice of England's class system, on the legalized looting of Empire and the legal prostitution of arranged marriages. Her Elegiac Sonnets with their lonely landscapes greatly influenced William Wordsworth, while Jane Austen devoured her satirical fiction and adapted her plots and settings for novels of her own.
Her personality comes across vividly from her letters, published here for the first time, and from Loraine Fletcher's sympathetic, scholarly narrative.
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Authors, English, Biography, English Authors, History, Women and literature, Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806., Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century., Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography., Women, biography, Authors, biography, Women authors, Great britain, biography, English Women authorsPlaces
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Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography
July 6, 2001, Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
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Edition Notes
"CS's works in chronological order": p. 354-355.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-384) and index.
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"On a cold evening in October 1784, Charlotte Smith was waiting at the embarkation point near the Ship Inn at Brighton to board the packet to Dieppe."
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