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Charlotte Turner Smith

Charlotte Turner Smith (May 4, 1749 - October 28, 1806) was an English poet and novelist whose works have been credited with influencing Jane Austen and particularly Charles Dickens. As a poet, she is a Romantic; as a novelist, she falls into no particular pigeon-hole, but is in some respects Gothic. Smith is also very much interested in social conditions (the influence on Dickens is clear here) and in politics -- specifically the French Revolution. File links The following pages link to this file: Abraham Lincoln Aristotle Ayn Rand Adolf Hitler Al Gore A Modest Proposal Articles of Confederation Arthur Schopenhauer Albert Einstein Amhrán na bhFiann Arthur Conan Doyle Ada programming language Antarctic Treaty System Andrew Jackson Andrew Johnson Adam Smith Bill Clinton Bible... Wikisource, The Free Library, is a Wikimedia project to build a free wiki library of primary source texts, along with translations of source-texts into any language and other supporting materials. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ... October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum) Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817) was a prominent English novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. ... Charles Dickens used his rich imagination, sense of humour and detailed memories, particularly of his childhood, to enliven his fiction. ... Romance or romantic can refer to: Romance (genre) - a style of Medieval narrative fiction. ... Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole The gothic novel is an English literary genre, which can be said to have been born with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ... Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870), pen-name “Boz”, was an English novelist of the Victorian era. ... During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism overthrew the absolute monarchy in France, and the French portion of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...

Biography

Born into a well-to-do family, Charlotte Turner Smith was brought up in South England. At the early age of fourteen, she was married to Benjamin Smith, the son of a wealthy East Indian merchant. However, his wealth did not last and in 1783 Charlotte shared his imprisonment for debts with him for several months.

At that time she decided to publish some of her poems to support her ever increasing family. The volume "Elegiac Poems" of 1784 was an instant success. Charlotte put down her thoughts the form of sonnet, a form which since Shakespeare's days had come out of use. Her poetry, famous for its melancholy and sadness, became highly popular in the following years. "Elegiac Poems" saw several further editions and important Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Coleridge were influenced by her poetical work. Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers The term sonnet is derived from the Provençal word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning little song. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... William Wordsworth, English poet William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English poet who with Samuel Taylor Coleridge launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads. ... This page is about the nineteenth century English poet. ...

In the late 1780s Charlotte Turner Smith began to write novels to earn money for her family. She composed them in almost breathtaking speed. "Emmeline" was published in 1788, "Ethelinde" in 1789, then followed "Celestina" (1791), "Desmond" (1792) and "The Old Manor House" (1793).

Charlotte Turner Smith was an admirer of the French Revolution. She liked Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the revolutionary A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Wollstonecraft's husband, William Godwin, reports that in the late 1790s Smith's house was a vital gathering place for radical intellectuals. However, she was also critical of the tyranny of Jacobinism. In her poem "The Emigrants" (1791) Charlotte Turner Smith deals with the situation of French clergy and nobility who have fled into savety to exile in rural Sussex. She points out the injustice of their former conduct towords the poor, but she also condemns the violent turn the Revolution has taken. During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism overthrew the absolute monarchy in France, and the French portion of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ... Mary Wollstonecraft; stipple engraving by James Heath, ca. ... Written in 1792, Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the earliest works on the woman question and influenced the earliest feminists in England and America in the 19th century. ... William Godwin William Godwin (March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836) was an English political and miscellaneous writer, considered one of the important precursors of both utilitarian and anarchist thought. ... In the context of the French Revolution, a Jacobin originally meant a member of the Jacobin Club (1789-1794). ...

In 1806 Charlotte Turner Smith died at Tilford near Farnham in Surrey. A collection of poems from her manuscripts was published posthumously in 1807 under the title of "Beachy Head and Other Poems."

Novels

• Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle (1788)
• Ethelinde, or the Recluse of the Lake (1789)
• Celestina (1791)
• Desmond (1792)
• The Old Manor House (1793)
• The Emigrants (1793)
• The Wanderings of Warwick (1794)
• The Banished Man (1794)
• Montalbert (1795)
• Marchmont (1796)
• The Young Philosopher (1798)

Online works

Poetry:

• Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore
• "Elegiac Poems"
• "The Emigrants
• "Beachy Head; With Other Poems"
  

Novels:

• The Old Manor House

External links

• Charlotte Smith: Poet, Novelist, Radical
• Charlotte Smith (encyclopedia entry)
• "British Women Romantic Poets Project"