Charlotte Smith

(1749-1806)

Scene from Ethelinda;or, The Recluse of the Lake

Internet Resources:

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BARTOLOMEO, Joseph E. "Subversion of Romance in The Old Manor House." 0305

BOWSTEAD, Diana. "Convention and Innovation in Charlotte Smith's Novels." 0511

BURGESS, Miranda J. "Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House" In A Companion to Romanticism, Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998: 122-30.

CONWAY, A. "Nationalism, Revolution and the Female Body: Charlotte Smith's Desmond." Women's Studies 24-25 (1995): 395-410.

EHRENPREIS, Anne H. Introduction to The Old Manor House. 0513

________. Introduction to Emmeline, The Orphan of the Castle. 0515

ELLIS, Katherine. "Charlotte Smith's Subversive Gothic." 0306

FLETCHER, Loraine. "Charlotte Smith's Emblematic Castles." Critical Survey 4 (1992): 3-8. Discusses, with an eye toward Burke's theories of the sublime, the political symbolism of landed estates in Smith's novels.

________. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Bibliography. New York: Macmillan, 1998.

FOSTER, James R. "Charlotte Smith: Pre-Romantic Novelist." 0516

FRY, Carol. "Charlotte Smith, Popular Novelist." 0517

________. Charlotte Smith, Popular Novelist. 0518

HILBISH, Florence May Anna. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. 0519

IKEGAMI, Robin Umeko. "French Principles and English Women: The Novel of Feminist Exposure, Wollstonecraft to Austen." Dissertation Abstracts International 54:11 (1993): 4102A (University of Michigan). Has material on Mrs. Radcliffe's and Charlotte Smith's novels. "Drawing upon M. M. Bakhtin's formulations of the dialogic and the novel, feminist theories about authority and subjectivity, and cultural studies of the period, argues that the above authors created a new literary genre that marginalized concerns with the internal life of its characters in order to expose the ways in which various institutions of power attempted to control the thinking and behavior of women."

IMIG, Barbara L. "Shooting Folly as it Flies: A Dialogic Approach to Four Novels by Charlotte Smith." 0307

KENNEDY, Deborah. "Thorns and Roses: The Sonnets of Charlotte Smith." Women's Writing 2:1 (1995); 43-54.

KIMZEY, Donna Lee. "'A Diagram of Rapture': Petrarch, Gender, and Power in the Romantic Era (Mary Robinson, Anna Seward, Charlotte Smith, Emily Dickinson, Sappho)." Dissertation Abstracts International 57:8 (1996): 3507A (University of Virginia). Has material on the Gothic writers, Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. These writers struggle with "the construction of a gendered identity within the patriarchal order."

LABBE, Jacqueline. “Metaphoricity and the Romance of Property in The Old Manor House.” Novel 34 (2001): 216-231. “The Old Manor House can be read as a ‘property romance,’ wherein the origins, continuation, and resolution of the romance are contingent on landed property. Smith manipulates genre to romanticize economics in The Old Manor House, and she draws Gothic conventions and historical references to war into the service of exposing the irrational dimension of inheritance and property law.”

LIPSCOMB, David C. "Geographies of Progress: An Atlas of the Historical Novel in English, 1790-1830." Dissertation Abstracts International 59:7 (1998): 2492A (Columbia University). Has material on Ann Radcliffe and Charlotte Smith showing how their Gothic novels fit into the patter of the way in which "historical novels construct biographies of nations, life passages from earlier national selves. "Chapter one examines the placement of the Gothic past in the novels of Ann Radcliffe and the "savage" past in the English Jacobin philosophical tales of Robert Bage, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith."

MC KILLOP, Alan Dugald. "Charlotte Smith's Letters." Huntington Library Quarterly 15 (1951): 237-255.

MORGAN, Rebecca. "Radical Gothic: A Study of a Literary Genre and its Purpose in the Novels of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)." Doctoral Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1996.

PIORKOWSKI, Joan L. " ' Revolutionary ' Sentiment: A Reappraisal of the Fiction of Robert Bage, Charlotte Smith, and Thomas Holcroft." 0521

ROGERS, Deborah D. "Charlotte Smith" In Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Novelists: A Critical Reference Guide, Eds. Doreen Alvarez Saar, Mary Anne Schofield. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996: [data

ROGERS, Katherine M. "Inhibitions of Eighteenth Century Women Novelists: Elizabeth Inchbald and Charlotte Smith." 0523

ROSENBLUM, Joseph. "The Treatment of Women in the Novels of Charlotte Turner Smith" In Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, and their Sisters, Ed. Laura Dabundo. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000: 45-52. Studies the unfortunate situation of women in Smith's Desmond (1792), The Old Manor House (1794), Montalbert (1795), and Marchmont (1796). "Through her fiction Smith attacked patriarchal laws and attitudes and advocat[ed] a new and equal relationship between the sexes."

SCHOFIELD, Mary Anne. "Charlotte Smith" In Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind: Disguising Romances in Female Fiction, 1713-1799. 0308

SPENDER, Dale. "Charlotte Smith and the Real Life" In Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen. 0309

STANTON, Judith P. "Charlotte Smith's Prose: A Stylistic Study of Four of her Novels." 0524

________. “Charlotte Smith and ‘Mr. Monstroso’: an eighteenth century marriage in life and fiction.” Women’s Writing 7:1 (2000): [data].

TURNER, Rufus Paul. "Charlotte Smith (1749-1806): Some New Light on her Life and Literary Career." 0525

VOLLER, Jack G. "Charlotte Turner Smith." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: 408-411.

WHITING, George W. "Charlotte Smith, Keats, and the Nightingale." 0526

WIKBORG, E. "Political Discourse Versus Sentimental Romance: Ideology and Genre in Charlotte Smith's Desmond (1792)." English Studies 78:6 (1997): 522-531.