Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Turner Smith stands among the pivotal figures bridging 18th-century sensibility and the dawn of Romanticism in England. Poet, novelist, and critic, she transformed personal adversity into art, pioneering new poetic forms and championing social causes—particularly the abolition of slavery and the condition of women and the poor. While often overshadowed by later Romantics such […]

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Enchanted Pen of Letitia Elizabeth Landon In the cool morning light of August 14, 1802, a cry rang out from a genteel townhouse at Hans Place, Chelsea, in the beating heart of London. A daughter had been born to the Landons—John, a former naval officer turned investor, and Catherine, a woman of delicate poise

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