Charlotte Smith
Smith was a pioneering figure who combined the Gothic, the sentimental, and nascent social realism in her novels, influencing Austen and Wordsworth alike. Her Elegiac Sonnets revived the sonnet form and her fiction explored the precarious position of women.
Works
- EmmelineNovel following a woman navigating adversity and separation across continents and decades
- Ethelinde
- Celestina
- DesmondNovel exploring a man's melancholic journey through French Revolution and personal disillusionment
- The Old Manor HouseGothic novel set in an English manor where a soldier discovers love and supernatural secrets
- Elegiac SonnetsCollection of sonnets expressing melancholy, loss, and romantic longing
- Beachy HeadLong poem depicting the English seaside landscape with philosophical and historical reflection