Charlotte Smith

The Old Manor House

Gothic novel set in an English manor where a soldier discovers love and supernatural secrets

About the author

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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