Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography

by Loraine Fletcher

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333949463
• ISBN13: 9780333949467
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 401 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.4"