Charlotte Smith (1) (1749–1806)
Auteur de L'orpheline du chateau, ou Emmeline
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Charlotte Smith (1) a été combiné avec Charlotte Turner Smith.
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Crédit image: Uncredited drawing found at The Poetry Foundation website
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- Autres noms
- Smith, Charlotte Turner
- Date de naissance
- 1749-05-04
- Date de décès
- 1806-10-28
- Lieu de sépulture
- Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Tilford, Surrey, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Lys Farm, Hampshire, England, UK
Dieppe, France - Études
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- Charlotte Turner Smith was born in London, England, the oldest child of a wealthy family. Her mother Anna Towers Turner died when Charlotte was very young, and her father Nicholas Turner travelled abroad. She and her siblings were raised by Lucy Towers, their maternal aunt. Charlotte was educated at schools in Chichester and Kingston and had lessons from private tutors. She began writing poetry at an early age. Her father returned to England, having spent most of his money, and remarried to a wealthy woman. He also arranged a marriage for Charlotte, aged 15, to Benjamin Smith, the son of a well-to-do West Indian merchant. They had 12 children but the marriage was deeply unhappy: her husband was a violent and profligate man. In 1783, he was thrown into King's Bench debtors' prison, where Charlotte joined him and began writing to provide for her family. Her first book, a collection called Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays (1784), was a success and later went into several editions. She also translated Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost into English. However, fiction promised greater financial rewards, so she wrote 10 novels including Emmeline; or, The Orphan of the Castle (1788), Ethelinde; or, The Recluse of the Lake (1789), Desmond (1792), and The Old Manor-House (1793). She obtained a legal separation from her husband in 1787, and although he hid from his creditors in Scotland and France, he often secretly returned to England to claim her book earnings. Her father-in-law Richard Smith attempted in his will to bypass his son entirely and leave the bulk of his estate directly to Charlotte, but this only led to a 30-year legal battle. In 1799, her comedy What Is She? was performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Near the end of her life, she turned to writing instructive books for children, the best being Conversations Introducing Poetry for the Use of Children (1804). A collection of poems in manuscript was published posthumously in 1807 under the title Beachy Head and Other Poems. Her poetic works were praised by Coleridge and Wordsworth, while her novels are credited with influencing the young Dickens. Today she is recognized as an important Romantic writer.
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Group read: Emmeline, The Orphan Of The Castle by Charlotte Smith à Virago Modern Classics (Juillet 2019)
Critiques
"Scarce first French translation of Charlotte Smith's first novel, Emmeline, the orphan of the castle, published in the same year as the first edition. '"Emmeline" anticipates both the scenery and maidenly crises of Mrs Radcliffe's novels in both its pictorial and psychological qualities. The heroine, Emmeline has an almost pathological craving for fearful situations and is even confined to a castle by her miscreant guardian, Montreville. J.M.S. Tompkins [in The popular novel in England, 1770-1800, 1932] correctly credits Charlotte Smith and not Mrs Radcliffe with the perfection of the maiden of the maiden-centered Gothic romance in her observation that "it is Charlotte Smith who first begins to explore in fiction the possibilities of the Gothic castle. Her Emmeline is the first heroine whose beauty is seen glowing against that grim background, or who is hunted along the passages at night". Emmeline's prison, the great Castle of Mowbray, anticipates the castles of Mrs Radcliffe's Italy, but Charlotte Smith was not willing to endow the castle with the properties of terror which the building always has in the high Gothic' (Frank, The first Gothics, 1987, p. 367). Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. A successful writer, she published ten novels, three books of poetry, four children's books, and other assorted works, over the course of her career. She saw herself as a poet first and foremost, poetry at that period being considered the most exalted form of literature. Scholars now credit her with transforming the sonnet into an expression of woeful sentiment. After the present work she wrote nine more novels over the next ten years: Ethelinde (1789), Celestina (1791), Desmond (1792), The old manor house (1793), The wanderings of Warwick (1794), The banished man (1794), Montalbert (1795), Marchmont (1796), and The young philosopher (1798). It is interesting to note that Emmeline was published in French under a different title in the same year, as Emmeline, ou l’orpheline du château, in two issues (Paris: Letellier, and Maestricht: Roux & Compagnie). No precendance seems to have been established, and all versions are equally rare. Frank 421; Rochedieu p. 305 (Maestricht edition only); see Garside, Raven & Schowerling 1788.72. OCLC records no copies outside of Europe of this edition, and two in North America of the Buisson issue, at Harvard and Alberta." (Pickering & Chatto, cat. 799, lot 80). COPAC lists copies of all three 1788 French editions: copies of the Buisson issue at Univ's Bristol and Oxford, of the Maestricht issue at the BL, and the Letellier issue at the BL, NLS, NLW, TCD, UCL, Wellcome, and Univ's Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Durham, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Northumbria, Nottingham, St Andrews, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Strathclyde and York, although some are almost certainly external digital copies.… (plus d'informations)
orphan is loved by foster brother, enemy implies they are actually siblings, fiancé learns truth and all live HEA
Emmeline Mowbray is an illegitimate orphan who has been allowed by her uncle to use her father’s name and live in his castle in Wales. When her uncle and her cousin, Delamere, visit the castle, everything changes for young Emmeline. Delamere becomes obsessed with her and places her in physical danger. Instead of restraining his son, Emmeline’s uncle keeps forcing her to move. She makes friends wherever she goes, but the threat of Delamere’s violence continues to hang over her and limits her choices of companions and activities. Emmeline and her acquaintances are members of the class that doesn’t work, and since they have nothing better to do, they worry about who might say what to whom, and how others will react to that, and work themselves up into highly emotional states. The book is interesting as a specimen of the literature of its time, but readers shouldn’t expect writing of Austen’s caliber.… (plus d'informations)
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