Charlotte Smith (writer)

Charlotte Smith (née Turner; – ) was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose ''Elegiac Sonnets'' (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and wrote political novels of sensibility. Despite ten novels, four children's books and other works, she saw herself mainly as a poet and expected to be remembered for that.

Smith left her husband and began writing to support their children. Her struggles for legal independence as a woman affect her poetry, novels and autobiographical prefaces. She is credited with turning the sonnet into an expression of woeful sentiment and her early novels show development in sentimentality. Later novels such as ''Desmond'' and ''The Old Manor House'' praised the ideals of the French Revolution. Waning interest left her destitute by 1803. Barely able to hold a pen, she sold her book collection to pay debts and died in 1806. Largely forgotten by the mid-19th century, she has since been seen as a major Romantic precursor. Provided by Wikipedia

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1791
printed for R. Cross, P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, J. Halpen, H. Colbert, W. Sleater, B. Dornin, W. Porter. A. Grueber, J. Jones, J. Rice, W. Jones, R. White, R. M'alister, and A. Porter

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1791
printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1795
printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, B. Dugdale, J Moore, C. Brown, W. Jones, H. Fitzpatrick, J. Boyce, J. Milliken, J. Rice, H. Colbert, and G. Folingsey

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1789
printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1800
printed by and for Sampson Low, Berwick Street, Soho

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1795
From the store of Thomas Stephens, no. 60, South Second Street

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1793
[printed for Messrs. G. Burnet, P. Wogan, P. Byrne, H. Colbert, J. Moore [and 6 others in Dublin]

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1788
et se trouve à Paris, chez Letellier, Libraire, quai des Augustins. Desenne, Libraire, au Palais Royal, Nos. 1 & 2

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1799
printed by Doherty and Simms

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1795
printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1789
printed by William Porter, for L. White, P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Jones, and J. Moore

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1800
Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market Street, Philadelphia; by Snowden & M'Corkle, Greensburg

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1800
Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, in the Strand; by R. Noble, Shire-Lane

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1794
Printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, W. Jones, W. Porter, H. Colbert, and J. Rice

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by Smith, Charlotte Turner
Published 1787
printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand