The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith:
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253340128 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 768 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Charlotte Smith’s letters enlarge our understanding of her literary achievement, for they show the private world of spirit, determination, anger, and sorrow in which she wrote.Despite her family’s diligence in destroying her papers, almost 500 of Smith’s letters survived in 22 libraries, archives, and private collections. Most are from Smith’s early career, along with two letters to her troublesome husband, Benjamin. Two letters from Benjamin to Charlotte are reprinted in full, and generous excerpts from the rest are included in footnotes, bringing a shadowy figure to life.. Equally popular as a novelist, she experimented with many genres, and even her children’s books were highly regarded by her contemporaries. The archives also preserved 50 letters by Benjamin,
Wolfson, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. Stanton's labor of transcribing and annotating about five hundred pieces of correspondence is nothing less than heroic, a dedicated recovery from nearly two dozen libraries, archives, and collections far and wide, from Edinburgh to Pasadena, and seemingly everywhere in between. Letters is not only foundational for any study of Smith but also a model for editions of correspondence." Susan J. 70, No. "Judith Phillips Stanton’s Collected Letters of Charlo
She also translated the French novel Manon Lescaut(1731) by Abbé Prévost, and accounts of several famous trials from Les Causes Célèbres, which appeared (1786) as The Romance of Real Life.Judith Phillips Stanton has taught courses in women’s studies and feminist theory at Clemson University. She has published articles on Charlotte Smith and statistical studies of trends in 18th-century women&rsqu
Margaret Ann Mitchell said The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith. I am loving every word of it, but I am biased. She is my great-great-great-great grandmother. Her daughter Madelina Forbes Mitchell (nee Smith) is buried not far from me in Melbourne, Australia.