Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806)
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(eng) Charlotte Turner Smith, the 18th C. poet and novelist, was born Charlotte Turner. Many of her works can be found on the Charlotte Smith author page; however the two pages should not be combined due to the existence of other authors called Charlotte Smith.
Créditos de la imagen: Charlotte Turner Smith, 1792, by George Romney. Wikimedia Commons.
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- Otros nombres
- Turner, Charlotte
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1749-05-04
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1806-10-28
- Lugar de sepultura
- Stoke Church, Stoke Park, Guildford, England
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Tilford, Surrey, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Farnham, Surrey, England
London, England
Tilford, Surrey, England - Ocupaciones
- poet
novelist
translator
children's book author - Relaciones
- Dorset, Catherine Ann (sister)
- Biografía breve
- Charlotte Turner Smith was born into a wealthy London family. She received a typical late 18th-century girl's education at a school in Kensington, where she learned dancing, drawing, music, and acting. She loved to read and write, and even submitted a few poems to a magazine. Her mother's early death, combined with her father's financial problems, forced Charlotte to marry young. In 1765, at age 15, she married Benjamin Smith, with whom she had 12 children. The marriage was unhappy, and Benjamin Smith was an irresponsible husband and father. He illegally spent his inheritance money and wound up in debtor's prison. Charlotte became a writer to support her family. Her first published work, Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays (1784), was extremely successful and was reprinted nearly a dozen times and translated into French and Italian. Charlotte’s literary success empowered her to leave her husband. She became a friend of many famous artists and writers of her day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Hays, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Robert Southey. She supported the French Revolution and its republican principles, and was influential in the rise of the Romantic poets. Her last novel, The Young Philosopher (1798), was considered outspoken radical fiction by Sir Walter Scott and others. Besides poetry, Charlotte Turner Smith wrote children's literature, a two-volume history of England, and A Natural History of Birds, which was published posthumously. In the last 20 years of her life, she had to move frequently due to financial concerns as her popularity waned and her health declined. Her novels were republished again at the end of the 20th century, and literary critics interested in women poets and writers have helped revive her reputation.
- Aviso de desambiguación
- Charlotte Turner Smith, the 18th C. poet and novelist, was born Charlotte Turner. Many of her works can be found on the Charlotte Smith author page; however the two pages should not be combined due to the existence of other authors called Charlotte Smith.
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Group read: Emmeline, The Orphan Of The Castle by Charlotte Smith en Virago Modern Classics (julio 2019)
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"Scarce first French translation of Charlotte Smith's first novel, Emmeline, the orphan of the castle, published in the same year as the first edition. '"Emmeline" anticipates both the scenery and maidenly crises of Mrs Radcliffe's novels in both its pictorial and psychological qualities. The heroine, Emmeline has an almost pathological craving for fearful situations and is even confined to a castle by her miscreant guardian, Montreville. J.M.S. Tompkins [in The popular novel in England, 1770-1800, 1932] correctly credits Charlotte Smith and not Mrs Radcliffe with the perfection of the maiden of the maiden-centered Gothic romance in her observation that "it is Charlotte Smith who first begins to explore in fiction the possibilities of the Gothic castle. Her Emmeline is the first heroine whose beauty is seen glowing against that grim background, or who is hunted along the passages at night". Emmeline's prison, the great Castle of Mowbray, anticipates the castles of Mrs Radcliffe's Italy, but Charlotte Smith was not willing to endow the castle with the properties of terror which the building always has in the high Gothic' (Frank, The first Gothics, 1987, p. 367). Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. A successful writer, she published ten novels, three books of poetry, four children's books, and other assorted works, over the course of her career. She saw herself as a poet first and foremost, poetry at that period being considered the most exalted form of literature. Scholars now credit her with transforming the sonnet into an expression of woeful sentiment. After the present work she wrote nine more novels over the next ten years: Ethelinde (1789), Celestina (1791), Desmond (1792), The old manor house (1793), The wanderings of Warwick (1794), The banished man (1794), Montalbert (1795), Marchmont (1796), and The young philosopher (1798). It is interesting to note that Emmeline was published in French under a different title in the same year, as Emmeline, ou l’orpheline du château, in two issues (Paris: Letellier, and Maestricht: Roux & Compagnie). No precendance seems to have been established, and all versions are equally rare. Frank 421; Rochedieu p. 305 (Maestricht edition only); see Garside, Raven & Schowerling 1788.72. OCLC records no copies outside of Europe of this edition, and two in North America of the Buisson issue, at Harvard and Alberta." (Pickering & Chatto, cat. 799, lot 80). COPAC lists copies of all three 1788 French editions: copies of the Buisson issue at Univ's Bristol and Oxford, of the Maestricht issue at the BL, and the Letellier issue at the BL, NLS, NLW, TCD, UCL, Wellcome, and Univ's Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Durham, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Northumbria, Nottingham, St Andrews, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Strathclyde and York, although some are almost certainly external digital copies.… (más)
orphan is loved by foster brother, enemy implies they are actually siblings, fiancé learns truth and all live HEA
Emmeline Mowbray is an illegitimate orphan who has been allowed by her uncle to use her father’s name and live in his castle in Wales. When her uncle and her cousin, Delamere, visit the castle, everything changes for young Emmeline. Delamere becomes obsessed with her and places her in physical danger. Instead of restraining his son, Emmeline’s uncle keeps forcing her to move. She makes friends wherever she goes, but the threat of Delamere’s violence continues to hang over her and limits her choices of companions and activities. Emmeline and her acquaintances are members of the class that doesn’t work, and since they have nothing better to do, they worry about who might say what to whom, and how others will react to that, and work themselves up into highly emotional states. The book is interesting as a specimen of the literature of its time, but readers shouldn’t expect writing of Austen’s caliber.… (más)
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This thing is boring from the first page to the last, though if you have a hard-on for the French Revolution, you might at least find parts of it interesting. If that is the case, I give you ALL my pity.