Originally published as the second volume in Charlotte Smiths five volume series of The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer in 1800, The Story of Henrietta follows its heroine as her happy life with her aunt and her beloved is quickly shattered by her tyrannical fathers cruelty. Henriettas father, a slaveholder in Jamaica, summons her to his plantation, where he plans to marry her off to a man she despises. But when she tries to escape, she will encounter other unexpected dangers, including capture by lascivious natives, a slave rebellion, and a hermit with a mysterious and tragic...
Originally published as the second volume in Charlotte Smiths five volume series of The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer in 1800, The Story of...
Immensely popular with contemporary readers, Smith's major poetic works are foundational texts of the Romantic period. Smith's innovations in poetic form have also placed her at the forefront of twenty-first-century scholarship on the period. This edition presents her three major poetic works--Elegiac Sonnets (1784-1800), The Emigrants (1793), and Beachy Head (1807). While the significance of these three volumes of poetry was recognized in their own time, this edition suggests that they remain major texts for thinking through such questions as the relationship...
Immensely popular with contemporary readers, Smith's major poetic works are foundational texts of the Romantic period. Smith's innovations in poeti...
