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The collected letters of Charlotte Smith / [edited by] Judith Phillips Stanton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, English--18th century--Correspondence.
- Authors, English.
- Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806. Correspondence.
- Smith, Charlotte.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (865 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most popular poets of her time, Charlotte Smith revived the sonnet form in England, influencing Wordsworth and Keats. Equally popular as a novelist, she experimented with many genres, and even her children's books were highly regarded by her contemporaries. Charlotte Smith's letters enlarge our understanding of her literary achievement, for they show the private world of spirit, determination, anger, and sorrow in which she wrote.Despite her family's diligence in destroying her papers
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction to Charlotte Smith's Letters; Charlotte Smith as an Author; Friendships; Smith's Husband and Children in the Letters; The Business of Richard Smith's Will; Charlotte Smith's Character; Charlotte Smith's Achievement; Sources of Charlotte Smith's Letters; Textual Principles; Holograph Letters; Copies and Printed Sources; Headings and Postscripts to Letters; Annotation; Chronology; Genealogical Chart; 1765-83"THE HORROR OF THE ABYSS"; 1784-90"TO LIVE ONLY TO WRITE & WRITE ONLY TO LIVE"; 1791-92"HOPE LONG DELAY'D"; 1793"A NEW COURSE OF SUFFERING"
- 1794"A STATE OF ANXIETY"1795"OVERWHELMD WITH SORROW"; 1796"A WANDERER UPON EARTH"; 1797"A NECESSITOUS AUTHOR"; 1798-1800"LORD EGREMONTS EXTRAORDINARY KINDNESS"; 1801"DOMESTIC MISERIES"; 1802"PETTY DUNS & CONTINUAL WANT"; 1803"AN HOUSELESS BEGGAR"; 1804"THE BEST OF THE BUNCH"; 1805-1806"A PRISON & A GRAVE"; EPILOGUE"NOTHING BUT THE WIND"; Appendix; Biographical Notes; Works Consulted; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [783]-[786]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07241-2
- 9786612072413
- 0-253-11059-9
- OCLC:
- 475945569
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