She had written it after fleeing to Blois in France with her family after a theatre riot greeted a performance of Voltaire
's Mahomet, and had intended it to be the first of a...
Publishing
Charlotte Smith
Her title-page bore her name and of Bignor Park, Sussex.
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press.
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The volume was dedicated to William Hayley
, who, with Bryan Edwards
, had helped her with the complicated and anxious business of reaching...
