Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was an English poet and novelist whose works have been credited with influencing Jane Austen, William Wordsworth and particularly Charles Dickens. She was both a poet and an author whose works fall under the Romantic genre. Smith was interested in social conditions as well as politics, with specific interest in the French Revolution. She put down her thoughts in the form of sonnets, helping to initiate a revival of the form which had been out of fashion since the mid-1600s. Her poetry, famous for its melancholy and sadness, became highly popular in the following years. In the late 1780s Charlotte Turner Smith began to write novels to earn money for her family. Emmeline appeared in 1788, Ethelinde in 1789, then followed Celestina (1791), Desmond (1792) and The Old Manor House (1793), her most famous work. Amongst her other works are Elegiac Sonnets (1784), The Emigrants (1793), The Banished Man (1794), Montalbert (1795) and Conversations Introducing Poetry (1804).

The old manor house (Oxford English novels)

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Charlotte Turner

Contemporary

Oxford U.P.

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Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle (Oxford English Novels)

Literary

Oxford Univ. Pr.

This is a sentimental romance with a Gothic setting, written in 1793 by Charlotte Smith, a poet and novelist who wrote to support her eight children. It is a complex story concerning Orlando, a second son, who must enter the military service for a living while his older brother wastes the family's small fortune. Orlando has a slight hope of an inheritance from a distant relative, the last owner of the Manor House, whose sinister housekeeper maintains her orphaned niece, one of Orlando's childhood friends. Around these two disinherited young people there is woven a plot of midnight meetings in a haunted house, banquets, smugglers, elopements, a missing will and the hero's adventures overseas during the American war of Independence. The novel attacks the injustice of the English inheritance system of the 1770s and the evils of war and slavery.

The Old Manor House (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Oxford University Press

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Elegiac Sonnets: And Other Poems, by Charlotte Smith

History

Franklin Classics

Rural Walks: In Dialogues Intended For The Use Of Young Persons (1795)

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Essays & Correspondence

Kessinger Publishing

When Charlotte Smith published Marchmont in 1796, she was not only publishing a love story gone gothic, but also a fictional tale that described events of her life. Althea, the heroine of the novel, resembles Smith in both personality and action, and encounters people throughout the story who mirror those in Smith’s life. Through its representations of politics, gender issues, and nature, Marchmont offered the English reader something new and set itself apart from other Romantic period works.  

Marchmont: A Novel (Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints)

Scholars' Facsimilies & Reprint

Orlando must survive the American War of Independence in order to marry Monimia, his noble, yet poor, sweetheart

The Old Manor House (Mothers of the Novel Reprints)

Pandora Pr

A sentimental heroine encounters love and adventure in this romantic novel depicting the social life and moral values of late eighteenth-century England

Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle (Mothers of the Novel)

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History & Criticism

Legare Street Press

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The old manor house (Oxford English novels)

Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle (Oxford English Novels)

The Old Manor House (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Elegiac Sonnets: And Other Poems, by Charlotte Smith

Rural Walks: In Dialogues Intended For The Use Of Young Persons (1795)

Rural Walks: In Dialogues Intended For The Use Of Young Persons (1795)

Marchmont: A Novel (Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints)

The Old Manor House (Mothers of the Novel Reprints)

Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle (Mothers of the Novel)

Elegiac Sonnets: And Other Poems, by Charlotte Smith