Charlotte Smith

Emmeline

Novel following a woman navigating adversity and separation across continents and decades

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Charlotte Smith
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.

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