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This book offers an intimate insight into the life and literary career of Charlotte Smith, an 18th-century writer who became celebrated for expressing female experience in her poetry. The author provides a detailed biography of Smith, delving into her early literary influences, her tumultuous marriage, and her later struggles as a single mother. Through extensive research, the author sheds light on Smith's literary techniques, recurrent themes, critical reception, and influence on the Gothic and Romantic literary movements. The author also examines Smith's negotiation of class, gender, and societal expectations, making this book essential reading for anyone interested in the life and work of this remarkable writer.
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Little leisure to bestow on his family, she must ra ther have inherited than acquired the playful wit and peculiar vein of humour which distinguished her conversation.
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The habits to which its young mistress was expected to conform, were little congenial to her feelings. The lower part of the house was appro priated to the business, and hither the elder Mr Smith came every morning to superintend his com mercial concerns, and usually took his chocolate in his daughter-in-law's dressing-room. He was a worthy, and even a good-natured man, but he had mixed very little in general society - his ideas were Confined, and his manners and habits were not cal culated to inspire affection, however he might be entitled to respect and gratitude. He had no taste for literature, and the elegant amusements of his daughter-in-law appeared to him as so many sources of expense, and as encroachments on time, which he thought should be exclusively dedicated to domestic occupations; he had a quiet petulant way of speak ing, and a pair of keen black eyes, which, darting from under his bushy black eye-brows the most inquisitive glances, always appeared to be in search of to find fault with; so that whenever12 biographical memoirs.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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