Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press.
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Benjamin Smith
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Standard Name: Smith, Benjamin,, 1743 - 1806
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Smith | Nicholas Turner
made an arranged marriage for his fifteen-year-old daughter Charlotte
with Benjamin Smith
. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, p. xix - xxix. xx |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Smith | Benjamin Smith
was confined in the King's Bench Prison
; CS
, his wife, accompanied him in prison for some of that time. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press. xxiii Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, p. xix - xxix. xxi-xxii Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press. 85-6 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Smith | Benjamin Smith
(husband of Charlotte
) died at the age of sixty-four many miles north: in debtors' prison in Berwick-on-Tweed. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, edited by Judith Phillips Stanton, Indiana University Press, p. i - xlv. 33 Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press. xxiv Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 329 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | Three women help each other escape male persecution; the distressed heroine gets an ideal husband, Godolphin, who restores the social status which her illegitimate birth had robbed her of. Though the castle where Emmeline grows... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | CS
's surviving letters are widely scattered in archives on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent discoveries have included in 2001 fifty-three lost letters among the Petworth House Archives at West Sussex Records Office
in... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Charlotte Smith | CS
's father-in-law, Richard Smith
, died, leaving an inheritance of £36,000 which he intended to preserve her and her children from his son
's fecklessness. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 44, 56 Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press. 71, 75 |
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