Charlotte Smith (née Turner)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• Elegy. ()
• [THE EMIGRANTS.] ()
• Ode to Despair. From the Novel of Emmeline. ()
• Origin of Flattery. ()
• Peasant of the Alps. From the Novel of Celestina. ()
• Song. ()
• Song. From the French of Cardinal Bernis. ()
• SONNET [01] I. ()
• SONNET [02] II. Written at the Close of Spring. ()
• SONNET [03] III. To a Nightingale. ()
• SONNET [04] IV. To the Moon. ()
• SONNET [05] V. To the South Downs. ()
• SONNET [06] VI. To Hope. ()
• SONNET [07] VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale. ()
• SONNET [08] VIII. To Spring. ()
• SONNET [09] IX. ()
• SONNET [10] X. To Mrs. G***. ()
• SONNET [11] XI. To Sleep. ()
• SONNET [12] XII. Written on the Sea Shore. — October, 1784. ()
• SONNET [13] XIII. From Petrarch. ()
• SONNET [14] XIV. From Petrarch. ()
• SONNET [15] XV. From Petrarch. ()
• SONNET [16] XVI. From Petrarch. ()
• SONNET [17] XVII. From the thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio. ()
• SONNET [18] XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont. ()
• SONNET [19] XIX. To Mr. Hayley. On receiving some elegant Lines from him. ()
• SONNET [20] XX. To the Cotentess of A****. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage. ()
• SONNET [21] XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter. ()
• SONNET [22] XXII. By the same. To Solitude. ()
• SONNET [23] XXIII. By the same. To the North Star. ()
• SONNET [24] XXIV. By the same. ()
• SONNET [25] XXV. By the same. Just before his Death. ()
• SONNET [26] XXVI. To the River Arun. ()
• SONNET [27] XXVII. ()
• SONNET [28] XXVIII. To Friendship. ()
• SONNET [29] XXIX. To Miss C****. On being desired to attempt writing a Comedy. ()
• SONNET [30] XXX. To the River Arun. ()
• SONNET [31] XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, May, 1784. ()
• SONNET [32] XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October, 1785. ()
• SONNET [33] XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun. ()
• SONNET [34] XXXIV. To a Friend. ()
• SONNET [35] XXXV. To Fortitude. ()
• SONNET [36] XXXVI. ()
• SONNET [37] XXXVII. Sent to the Hon. Mrs. O'Niell, with painted Flowers. ()
• SONNET [38] XXXVIII. From the Novel of Emmeline. ()
• SONNET [39] XXXIX. To Night. From the same. ()
• SONNET [40] XL. From the same. ()
• SONNET [41] XLI. To Tranquillity. ()
• SONNET [42] XLII. Composed during a Walk on the Downs, Nov. 1787. ()
• SONNET [43] XLIII. ()
• SONNET [44] XLIV. Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex. ()
• SONNET [45] XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex. ()
• SONNET [46] XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in Autumn, 1788. ()
• SONNET [47] XLVII. To Fancy. ()
• SONNET [48] XLVIII. To Mrs. ****. ()
• SONNET [49] XLIX. Supposed to have been written in a Church Yard, over the Grave of a Young Woman of nineteen. From the Novel of Celestina. ()
• SONNET [50] L. From the Novel of Celestina. ()
• SONNET [51] LI. Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides. From the Novel of Celestina. ()
• SONNET [52] LII. The Pilgrim. From the Novel of Celestina. ()
• SONNET [53] LIII. The Laplander. From the Novel of Celestina. ()
• SONNET [54] LIV. The sleeping Woodman. Written in April, 1790. ()
• SONNET [55] LV. The Return of the Nightingale. Written in May, 1791. ()
• SONNET [56] LVI. The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America. Addressed to the Honourable Mrs. O'Neill. ()
• SONNET [57] LVII. To Dependence. ()
• SONNET [58] LVIII. The Glow Worm. ()
• SONNET [59] LIX. Written during a Thunder Storm, September, 1791; in which the Moon was perfectly clear, while the Tempest gathered in various directions near the Earth. ()
• Thirty Eight. Addressed to Mrs. H—y. ()
• Verses. Intended to have been prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline, but these suppressed. ()

• Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. The emigrants, a poem, in two books. By Charlotte Smith. London: printed for T. Cadell, 1793. ix,[3],68[i.e. 60]p.; 4⁰. (ESTC T32633; OTA K035639.000)
  • [THE EMIGRANTS.]
• Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. Elegiac sonnets, and other poems. By Charlotte Smith. The first Worcester edition, from the sixth London edition, with additions. Printed at Worcester [Mass.]: by Isaiah Thomas, sold by him in Worcester, and by said Thomas and Andrews in Boston, 1795. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo) ( OTA N22357)
  • SONNET [01] I.
  • SONNET [02] II. Written at the Close of Spring.
  • SONNET [03] III. To a Nightingale.
  • SONNET [04] IV. To the Moon.
  • SONNET [05] V. To the South Downs.
  • SONNET [06] VI. To Hope.
  • SONNET [07] VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale.
  • SONNET [08] VIII. To Spring.
  • SONNET [09] IX.
  • SONNET [10] X. To Mrs. G***.
  • SONNET [11] XI. To Sleep.
  • SONNET [12] XII. Written on the Sea Shore. — October, 1784.
  • SONNET [13] XIII. From Petrarch.
  • SONNET [14] XIV. From Petrarch.
  • SONNET [15] XV. From Petrarch.
  • SONNET [16] XVI. From Petrarch.
  • SONNET [17] XVII. From the thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio.
  • SONNET [18] XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont.
  • SONNET [19] XIX. To Mr. Hayley. On receiving some elegant Lines from him.
  • SONNET [20] XX. To the Cotentess of A****. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage.
  • SONNET [21] XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter.
  • SONNET [22] XXII. By the same. To Solitude.
  • SONNET [23] XXIII. By the same. To the North Star.
  • SONNET [24] XXIV. By the same.
  • SONNET [25] XXV. By the same. Just before his Death.
  • SONNET [26] XXVI. To the River Arun.
  • SONNET [27] XXVII.
  • SONNET [28] XXVIII. To Friendship.
  • SONNET [29] XXIX. To Miss C****. On being desired to attempt writing a Comedy.
  • SONNET [30] XXX. To the River Arun.
  • SONNET [31] XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, May, 1784.
  • SONNET [32] XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October, 1785.
  • SONNET [33] XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun.
  • SONNET [34] XXXIV. To a Friend.
  • SONNET [35] XXXV. To Fortitude.
  • SONNET [36] XXXVI.
  • SONNET [37] XXXVII. Sent to the Hon. Mrs. O'Niell, with painted Flowers.
  • SONNET [38] XXXVIII. From the Novel of Emmeline.
  • SONNET [39] XXXIX. To Night. From the same.
  • SONNET [40] XL. From the same.
  • SONNET [41] XLI. To Tranquillity.
  • SONNET [42] XLII. Composed during a Walk on the Downs, Nov. 1787.
  • SONNET [43] XLIII.
  • SONNET [44] XLIV. Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex.
  • SONNET [45] XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex.
  • SONNET [46] XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in Autumn, 1788.
  • SONNET [47] XLVII. To Fancy.
  • SONNET [48] XLVIII. To Mrs. ****.
  • SONNET [49] XLIX. Supposed to have been written in a Church Yard, over the Grave of a Young Woman of nineteen. From the Novel of Celestina.
  • SONNET [50] L. From the Novel of Celestina.
  • SONNET [51] LI. Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides. From the Novel of Celestina.
  • SONNET [52] LII. The Pilgrim. From the Novel of Celestina.
  • SONNET [53] LIII. The Laplander. From the Novel of Celestina.
  • SONNET [54] LIV. The sleeping Woodman. Written in April, 1790.
  • SONNET [55] LV. The Return of the Nightingale. Written in May, 1791.
  • SONNET [56] LVI. The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America. Addressed to the Honourable Mrs. O'Neill.
  • SONNET [57] LVII. To Dependence.
  • SONNET [58] LVIII. The Glow Worm.
  • SONNET [59] LIX. Written during a Thunder Storm, September, 1791; in which the Moon was perfectly clear, while the Tempest gathered in various directions near the Earth.
  • Ode to Despair. From the Novel of Emmeline.
  • Elegy.
  • Song. From the French of Cardinal Bernis.
  • Origin of Flattery.
  • Peasant of the Alps. From the Novel of Celestina.
  • Song.
  • Thirty Eight. Addressed to Mrs. H—y.
  • Verses. Intended to have been prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline, but these suppressed.

Source editions

• Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. The emigrants, a poem, in two books. By Charlotte Smith. London: printed for T. Cadell, 1793. ix,[3],68[i.e. 60]p.; 4⁰. (ESTC T32633; OTA K035639.000)
• Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. Elegiac sonnets, and other poems. By Charlotte Smith. The first Worcester edition, from the sixth London edition, with additions. Printed at Worcester [Mass.]: by Isaiah Thomas, sold by him in Worcester, and by said Thomas and Andrews in Boston, 1795. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo) ( OTA N22357)

Bibliography

ODNB 25790; DMI 2171; DLB 109; NCBEL 683-684

Editions

• Curran, Stuart, ed. The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M., ed. and Stuart Curran, gen. ed. The Works of Charlotte Smith, vol. 14 Elegiac sonnets, vols. 1 & 2; The emigrants; Beachy Head: with other poems; Uncollected poems. Pickering masters. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005-2007. Print. 14 volumes.
• Stanton, Judith P., ed. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002. Print.
• Willson, Judith, ed. Charlotte Smith: Selected poems. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003. Print.

Biography

• Fry, Carroll L. Charlotte Smith. New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall, 1996. Print.
• Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998. Print.

Bibliography

• Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Bibliography. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave, 2001. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 316-317. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33232.
• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 287-289. Print.
• Voller, Jack G. Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806). Thomson, Douglass H., Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank, eds. Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 408-411. Print.

Criticism

• Alexander, Laura. Literary Hybridity and the Aesthetic of Suffering and Desire in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets. Feminist Studies in English Literature 24(3) (2016): 159-182. Print.
• Bernstein, Stephen. 'Nature seem'd to lose her course': crisis historiography and historiographic crisis in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants. Felber, Lynette, ed. Clio's daughters: British women writing history, 1790-1899. Newark, NJ: Delaware UP, 2007. 29-42. Print.
• Blank, Antje, ed. Charlotte Smith after 200 Years. Women's Writing 16(1) (2009). Print.
• Brooks, Stella. The sonnets of Charlotte Smith. Critical Survey 4(1) (1992): 9-21. Print.
• Curran, Stuart. Charlotte Smith and English Romanticism. South Central Review 11(2) (1994): 66-78. Print.
• Currie, Joy. 'Mature Poets Steal': Charlotte Smith's Appropriations of Shakespeare. Ortiz, Joseph M., ed. Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2013. 99-119. Print.
• Dolan, Elizabeth A. British Romantic Melancholia: Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, Medical Discourse and the Problem of Sensibility. Journal of European Studies 33(3-4) (2003): 237-253. Print.
• Dolan, Elizabeth A. Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. Print.
• Falk, Michael. The nightjar's shriek: nature's variety in the sonnets of John Clare and Charlotte Smith. John Clare Society Journal 36 (2017): 31-48. Print.
• Garnai, Amy. Revolutionary imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print.
• Garnai, Amy. Politics, exile, and authorship: Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants. Eighteenth-Century Women 3 (2003): 225-245. Print.
• Girten, Kristin M. Charlotte Smith's tactile poetics. Eighteenth Century 54(2) (2013): 215-230. Print.
• Hasperg, Keith. 'Saved by the historic page': Charlotte Smith's Arun River sonnets. Studies in Romanticism 53(1) (2014): 103-131. Print.
• Hawley, Judith. Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, Losses and Gains. Armstrong, Isobel, and Virginia Blain, eds. Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. 184-198. Print.
• Hunt, Bishop C. Wordsworth and Charlotte Smith. Wordsworth Circle 1 (1970): 85-113. Print.
• Kennedy, Deborah. Thorns and Roses: The Sonnets of Charlotte Smith. Women's Writing 2 (1995): 43-54. Print.
• Knowles, Claire. Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860: The Legacy of Charlotte Smith. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M. 'Transplanted into More Congenial Soil': Footnoting the Self in the Poetry of Charlotte Smith. Bray, Joe, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry, eds. Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 71-86. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M. Selling One's Sorrows: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the Marketing of Poetry. The Wordsworth Circle 25(2) (1994): 68-71. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M. The Exiled Self: Images of War in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants. Shaw, Philip, ed. Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793-1822. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2000. 37-56. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M. Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, poetry, and the culture of gender. Manchester; New York: Manchester UP, 2003. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M., ed. Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism. Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century. London, England: Pickering & Chatto, 2008. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M. Writing Romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Cultures of Print. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M. Pathological sensibility. Women's Writing 23(3) (2016): 354-365. Print.
• Labbe, Jacqueline M. The Seductions of Form in the Poetry of Ann Batten Cristall and Charlotte Smith. Rawes, Alan, ed. Romanticism and Form. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 154-170. Print.
• Mergenthal, Silvia. Charlotte Smith and the Romantic Sonnet Revival. Fendler, Susanne, ed. Feminist Contributions to the Literary Canon: Setting Standards of Taste. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1997. 65-79. Print.
• Myers, Mary Anne. Charlotte Smith's Androgynous Sonnets. European Romantic Review 13(4) (2002): 379-382. Print.
• Myers, Mary Anne. Unsexing Petrarch: Charlotte Smith's lessons in the sonnet as a social medium. Studies in Romanticism 53(2) (2014): 239-263. Print.
• Özdemir, Erinç. Charlotte Smith's poetry as Sentimental discourse. Studies in Romanticism 50(3) (2011): 437-473. Print.
• Parisot, Eric. Living to labour, labouring to live: the problem of suicide in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets". Literature Compass 12(12) (2015): 660-666. Print.
• Raycroft, Brent. From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet. European Romantic Review 9(3) (1998): 363-392. Print.
• Roberts, Bethan. 'Breaking the Silent Sabbath of the Grave': Charlotte Smith's Sonnet XLIV and Her Place in Literary History. European Romantic Review 28(5) (2017): 549-570. Print.
• Roberts, Bethan. Literary past and present in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 54(3) (2014): 649-674. Print.
• Roberts, Bethan. Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2019. Print.
• Robinson, Daniel. Reviving the Sonnet: Women Romantic Poets and the Sonnet Claim. European Romantic Review 6(1) (1995): 98-127. Print.
• Robinson, Daniel. Elegiac Sonnets: Charlotte Smith's formal paradoxy. Papers on Language & Literature 39(2) (2003): 185-220. Print.
• Stokes, Christopher. Lorn subjects: haunting, fracture and ascesis in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets. Women's Writing 16(1) (2009): 143-160. Print.
• Terry, Richard. Sentimental doubling in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets. ANQ 20(4) (2007): 50-58. Print.
• Weisman, Karen A. Form and loss in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets. Wordsworth Circle 33(1) (2002): 23-27. Print.
• White, Daniel E. Autobiography and Elegy: The Early Romantic Poetics of Thomas Gray and Charlotte Smith. Woodman, Thomas, ed. The Early Romantics: Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998. 57-69. Print.
• Wiley, Michael. The geography of displacement and replacement in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants. European Romantic Review 17(1) (2006): 55-68. Print.
• Wolfson, Susan J. Charlotte Smith's Emigrants: Forging Connections at the Borders of a Female Tradition. Huntington Library Quarterly: Studies in English and American History and Literature 63(4) (2000): 509-546. Print.
• Zimmerman, Sarah M. Romanticism, Lyricism, and History. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 1999. Print.
• Zimmerman, Sarah M. Varieties of privacy in Charlotte Smith's poetry. European Romantic Review 18(4) (2007): 483-502. Print.