Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 - 1806) was a poet and novelist whose works have been credited with influencing Jane Austen and particularly Charles Dickens. As a poet, she is a Romantic; as a novelist, she falls into no particular pigeon-hole, but is in some respects Gothic. Smith is also very much interested in social conditions (the influence on Dickens is clear here) and in politics -- specifically the French Revolution.

Novels:

  • Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle (1788)
  • Ethelinde, or the Recluse of the Lake (1789)
  • Celestina (1791)
  • Desmond (1792)
  • The Old Manor House (1793)
  • The Emigrants (1793)
  • The Wanderings of Warwick (1794)
  • The Banished Man (1794)
  • Montalbert (1795)
  • Marchmont (1796)
  • The Young Philosopher (1798)

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