Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

Arts & Ideas

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that we should salute this woman who supported her family through her writing, who perfected sonnets about solitude before Wordsworth began writing his, and who explored the struggles of women and refugees in her fiction. Mother to 12 children, Charlotte Turner Smith wrote ten novels, three poetry collections and four children's books and translated French fiction. In 1788 her first novel, Emmeline, sold 1500 copies within months but by the time of her death in 1803 her popularity had declined and she had become destitute.

New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to turn their research into radio.

Producer: Robyn Read

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0:39.5	Hello, I'm Claire Walker Gore.
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0:46.4	series looking at women writers to put back on the bookshelves.
0:50.4	Sophie Coulomba is a new generation thinker on a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to turn academic research into radio programmes.
1:00.2	She studies the 18th century at the University of York and her essay looks at the example set by Charlotte Smith.
1:06.5	This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the poet William Wordsworth's birth.
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