Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
An Essay looking at the mother to 12 children, Charlotte Smith who wrote ten novels, three poetry collections, four children's books and reshaped sonnet writing.
New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that we should salute this woman who supported her family through her writing, who perfected sonnets about solitude before Wordsworth began writing his, and who explored the struggles of women and refugees in her fiction. Mother to 12 children, Charlotte Turner Smith wrote ten novels, three poetry collections and four children's books and translated French fiction. In 1788 her first novel, Emmeline, sold 1500 copies within months but by the time of her death in 1803 her popularity had declined and she had become destitute.
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