Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography

Fletcher, Loraine

'Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen. Combative and witty she became a radical, controversial and very popular author: at a time when the French Revolution was raising high hopes of Reform, she argued for change in England too. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing the embattled life in the wonderfully self-dramatising fiction.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-06-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312215873

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287174

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 401