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...
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...
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...
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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.