Loraine Fletcher

Standard Name: Fletcher, Loraine

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Smith
CS 's father-in-law, Richard Smith , treated her kindly despite the cultural gulf between them: she liked him, although it was a shock to her that he owned and traded in slaves. Later he effectively...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Smith
CS 's biographer Loraine Fletcher gives a whole chapter to Austen 's response to her work.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
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Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Smith
Notable features of the book are the friendship between the heroine, Celestina, and a servant, Jessy (whose life-story is one of oppression and deprivation), and the handling of a prostitute (seduced at the age of...
Publishing Charlotte Smith
CS had been writing this novel through the momentous revolutionary events in France; she was working on it in Brighton in November 1790 when Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France was published. She...
Reception Charlotte Smith
CS has enjoyed a recent renaissance, with Stuart Curran 's edition of her poems, 1993, her Major Poetical Works edited by Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks , 2017, Curran's fourteen-volume collected works from Pickering and Chatto
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
CS 's Beachy Head, Fables, and Other Poems appeared, through Joseph Johnson , three months after her death.
Her biographers Hilbish (1941) and Fletcher (1998) both say the title-poem was the last thing she...

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Texts

Fletcher, Loraine. “Charlotte Smith on Stothard’s Rocky Shore”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.