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Charlotte Smith :

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Charlotte Smith :

[Book]

a critical biography /

Loraine Fletcher.

New York :

St. Martin's Press,

1998.

xi, 401 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

"CS's works in chronological order": pages 354-355.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-384) and index.

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.

Smith, Charlotte,1749-1806.

Smith, Charlotte,1749-1806

Authors, English-- 18th century, Biography.

Women and literature-- England-- History-- 18th century.

Authors, English.

Women and literature.

England.

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Fletcher, Loraine.

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