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Charlotte Turner Smith
1749 – 1806
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryCharlotte Smith was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and wrote political novels of sensibility. Despite eleven novels, four children's books and other works, she saw herself mainly as a poet and expected to be remembered for that.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
May 4, 1749
London
Date of death
October 28, 1806
Tilford
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Kingdom of Great Britain
Occupations & fields
poetwriternovelistbotanist
Notable works
EmmelineCelestina. A novel. In four volumes. By Charlotte Smith.DesmondBeachy Head: with Other PoemsConversations Introducing Poetry, Chiefly on Subjects of Natural History, for the Use of Young PersonsElegiac Sonnets
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