'Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen. Combative and witty she became a radical, controversial and very popular author: at a time when the French Revolution was raising high hopes of Reform, she argued for change in England too. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for ...
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'Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen. Combative and witty she became a radical, controversial and very popular author: at a time when the French Revolution was raising high hopes of Reform, she argued for change in England too. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing the embattled life in the wonderfully self-dramatising fiction.
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Add this copy of Charlotte Smith: a Critical Biography to cart. $52.94, very good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Macmillan.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Very nice copy in tight binding; black cloth with bright gilt titles on spine; pages white and neat; glossy dust jacket with good, straight edges.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. St. Martin's Press, New York. 1998. 412 pgs. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Some marks present to the margins. Binding tight and solid. "Sold, a legal prostitute" in marriage at fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support their children as a novelist. Combative and witty, she became a radical, controversial and very popular author at the time when the French Revolution raised high hopes of Reform; she had a lasting influence on the adolescent Jane Austen. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing an embattled life in wonderfully self-dramatizing fiction. EB; 8.9 X 5.8 X 1.5 inches; 415 pages.
