ENGL 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scots Wha Hae, Robert Burns, Didacticism
25 Sep 2018
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Charlotte smith: born in 1749, married to benjamin smith in 1765, has 12 children between the years of. Publishes elegiac sonnets in 1784; separates from benjamin in 1787; publishes novels between the years of 1788-1794; publishes a long poem called the emigrants (refugees from the french. Revolution) in 1793; 1794-(cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:1011) pu(cid:271)lished child(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ooks a(cid:374)d dida(cid:272)ti(cid:272) lite(cid:396)atu(cid:396)e; died i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:1010). She married at 15, had a fortune founded on slavery. Persuaded her father-in-law to set benjamin up as a gentleman farmer-less risk(cid:455). He (cid:449)e(cid:374)t to de(cid:271)to(cid:396)s" p(cid:396)iso(cid:374) a(cid:374)d the(cid:374) no(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)d(cid:455) (cid:449)ith be(cid:374)ja(cid:373)i(cid:374). Ri(cid:272)ha(cid:396)d, her father-in-law re-writes his will to give charlotte more financial control. (cid:373)ith"s literary a(cid:374)d politi(cid:272)al heritage: o(cid:374)e of the p(cid:396)og(cid:396)essi(cid:448)e autho(cid:396)s gathe(cid:396)ed at poet willia(cid:373) ha(cid:455)le(cid:455)"s home, she dedicated elegiac sonnets to him. Gender politics and revolutionary politics at that time inextricable: in desmond (1792), the wronged wife associated he own suffering with that of peasants during the french revolution.
