Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 - 1806) was a poet and novelist whose works have been credited with influencing Jane Austen and particularly Charles Dickens. As a poet, she is a Romantic; as a novelist, she falls into no particular pigeon-hole, but is in some respects Gothic. Smith is also very much interested in social conditions (the influence on Dickens is clear here) and in politics -- specifically the French Revolution.

Novels:

• Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle (1788)
• Ethelinde, or the Recluse of the Lake (1789)
• Celestina (1791)
• Desmond (1792)
• The Old Manor House (1793)
• The Emigrants (1793)
• The Wanderings of Warwick (1794)
• The Banished Man (1794)
• Montalbert (1795)
• Marchmont (1796)
• The Young Philosopher (1798)

Online works:

Poetry:

• Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore

Novels:

• The Old Manor House

External links:

• Charlotte Smith: Poet, Novelist, Radical
• Charlotte Smith (encyclopedia entry)