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Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith is recognized for her contributions to literary scholarship. She is a key figure behind The Norton Anthology of English Literature --Seventh Edition -- Volume 2A, a widely used educational text.
Emmeline
Synopsis
The plot of Charlotte Smith’s autobiographical first novel Emmeline (1788) includes the usual thrills of the eighteenth-century courtship novel: abduction, duels, and a “fairy tale princess.” At the same time, the novel satirically reworks such literary conventions by focusing on the dangers of early engagement and marriage, and challenges a social and legal system in which woment are inherently illegitimate subjects. The Broadview edition includes primary source material relating to the novel’s reception; women, marriage and work; and landscape in eighteenth-century fiction. Mary Hays’s biographical writing on Smith is also included, as is selected correspondence.
