Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Charlotte Smith

Johanna Araujo

-began writing to make money when her husband was in prison
-successful novelist
-liberal political views within her written work made her books key contributions to the Revolution Controversy in Britain
-Smith refashioned the sonnet form as a medium of mournful feeling
-Coleridge noted in 1796 that "Charlotte Smith...first made the Sonnet popular among the present English"
-Romantic poet

(Charlotte Smith: Norton Anth. Vol D page 39)

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