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The Old Manor House
''The Old Manor House'' is a novel by Charlotte Smith, first published in 1793. The plot tells the love story of a gentleman, Orlando Somerive, and his aunt's servant, Monimia Morysine. The novel blends gothic, sentimental, and political narrative techniques to present a "polemical romance," depicting the American revolution of the 1770s to comment on the ongoing French revolution of the 1790s. Smith particularly critiqued the injustices of war and property laws. ''The Old Manor House'' is sometimes considered the best of Charlotte Smith's ten novels, drawing particular praise for its deep characterization, engaging plot, and descriptions of nature. Smith composed the novel between August 1792 and January 1793, a period when the French Revolution was growing more violent. Smith was sympathetic to the political goals of the French revolutionaries. Her previous novel, ''Desmond'' (1792), was explicitly political in its depiction of contemporary events, and received strong critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Smith (writer)
Charlotte Smith (née Turner; – ) was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose ''Elegiac Sonnets'' (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and wrote political novels of sensibility. Despite ten novels, four children's books and other works, she saw herself mainly as a poet and expected to be remembered for that. Smith left her husband and began writing to support their children. Her struggles for legal independence as a woman affect her poetry, novels and autobiographical prefaces. She is credited with turning the sonnet into an expression of woeful sentiment and her early novels show development in sentimentality. Later novels such as ''Desmond'' and '' The Old Manor House'' praised the ideals of the French Revolution. Waning interest left her destitute by 1803. Barely able to hold a pen, she sold her book collection to pay debts and died in 1806. Largely forgotten by the mid-19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond (novel)
''Desmond'' is an epistolary novel by Charlotte Smith, first published in 1792. The novel focuses on politics during the French Revolution. Unlike her previous and subsequent novels, Smith used ''Desmond'' to introduce her audiences to contemporary politics. While critics initially supported this element of ''Desmond'', the radicalism of the French Revolution and the "conservative mood among her audience" prompted Smith to "tone down" the political references in her novels. Plotline Volume 1 ''Letter 1'' Desmond to Mr. Bethel: The story begins in Bath, England where Smith introduces her hero Lionel Desmond. Desmond is a young, wealthy, and single man from England. Although he comes from a place of privilege, he is strong Jacobian supporter (meaning her supports the French Revolution). Although he is single, his affections are cast solely on a married woman who is named Geraldine Verney (Waverly is her maiden name). In this letter, Desmond writes to his friend Erasamus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1793 Novels
The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I. Events January–June * January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden. * January 9 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a gas balloon in the United States. * January 13 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, a representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome. * January 21 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, ''Citizen Capet'', Louis XVI of France, is guillotined in Paris. * January 23 – Second Partition of Poland: The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partition the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. * February – In Manchester, Vermont, the wife of a captain falls ill, probably with tuberculosis. Some locals believe that the cause of her illness is that a demon vampire is sucking her blood. As a cure, Timothy Mead burns the heart of a deceased perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century British Novels
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported slavery. The Industrial Revolution began during mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Political Novels
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