Nicholas Turner
made an arranged marriage for his fifteen-year-old daughter Charlotte
with Benjamin Smith
.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
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Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Smith
CS
's father, Nicholas Turner
, was a landowner in Surrey and Sussex. In 1747 he had succeeded to his father's seat at Stoke near Guildford. From 1760 he made Bignor Park in...