Charlotte Smith\'s classic second novel, an influence on Jane Austen and Ann Radcliffe, now available in a paperback scholarly edition for the first time When Charlotte Smith\'s (1749-1806) profligate and abusive husband was imprisoned for debt in 1783, she was forced to turn to writing to support herself and ten children.
Over the course of a decade, she would go on to publish ten highly accomplished novels that earned her praise from contemporary critics an.
Charlotte Smith\'s classic second novel, an influence on Jane Austen and Ann Radcliffe, now available in a paperback scholarly edition for the first time When Charlotte Smith\'s (1749-1806) profligate and abusive husband was imprisoned for debt in 1783, she was forced to turn to writing to support herself and ten children
