Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
36, 324
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Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Smith | CS
's sister, Catherine Ann
, married Michael Dorset
, an army captain. Much later she became a noted children's writer. Her best-known book was The Peacock at Home, dating from after Charlotte's death. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 36, 324 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Howard Sigourney | The original volume also includes poems written for children. Flora's Party (in the style of William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast, 1807, Catherine Ann Dorset
's The Peacock "at Home"... |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | But of readers whose responses survive, most were delighted. These included Sarah Harriet Burney
—who, however, thought (apparently along with plenty of others) that Catherine Ann Dorset
, sister of Charlotte Smith
, might be... |
Publishing | Charlotte Smith | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | All these poems are lost. The earliest piece of her writing to survive (as quoted by her sister
) is a cheeky letter describing her mother-in-law's disapproval of her non-existent housekeeping skills. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 28 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | CS
says she tried to avoid the fall-lall way of writing very usual in works of this kind. Smith, Charlotte. Conversations, Introducing Poetry. J. Sharpe, 1815. v |
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