Portrait of English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith.

Charlotte Smith

(1749 - 1806)

Married at the age of fifteen in 1765, Charlotte Smith gave birth to twelve children between 1766 and 1785, six of whom survived her. To keep the family afloat while her husband was in debtors’ prison and her inheritance was held in dispute, she published a volume of poetry in 1784; it was a success. Smith published her first novel, Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, in 1788, followed by nine others over the next ten years, among them The Old Manor House and The Banished Man.

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