Publisher description for Charlotte Smith : a critical biography / Loraine Fletcher.
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"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.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806, Women and literature England History 18th century, Authors, English 18th century Biography