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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783357103321

Autore

Smith Charlotte <1749-1806.>

Titolo

The collected letters of Charlotte Smith [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Judith Phillips Stanton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-07241-2

9786612072413

0-253-11059-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (865 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StantonJudith Phillips <1946->

Disciplina

823/.6

Soggetti

Authors, English - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [783]-[786]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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