Person record for Smith, Charlotte (née Turner)

Smith, Charlotte (née Turner)

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 99 times, but was not at home (N) 9 times, and was a venue (V) 64 times.

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Name: Smith, Charlotte (née Turner)
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 4 May 1749
Death Date: 28 October 1806
Occupation: novelist

Charlotte Smith was an acclaimed poet and novelist. She published Elegiac Sonnets in 1784, a collection which won her the admiration of Coleridge and which reached a ninth edition by 1800. Her novels include Desmond (1792) and The Old Manor House (1793). She wrote the prologue to Godwin' s Antonio.

Thanks to her letters in the Abinger collection we can be confident that Godwin is referring to her when he writes C Smith in the diary prior to her death in October 1806. He meets 'C Smith' with a number of people who can be linked to Charlotte, including blood and marital relations. References to C Smith and Mrs C or Cl Smith after her death may be attributed to an unidentified Cecil Smith and wife. Miss C/Cha Smith refers to her daughter, Charlotte Mary, who was her mother's amanuensis.

Godwin recorded her death.

MS. Abinger c. 3, fols. 95-6: [?11] September 1797
MS. Abinger c. 55, fols. 31-3: 24 October 1797
MS. Abinger c. 22, fols. 71-3: 24 October 1797
MS. Abinger c. 3, fols. 109-110: 7 Dec. [1797]
MS. Abinger c. 5, fols. 91-2: 27 February 1800
MS. Abinger c. 44, fols. 33-4: 2 April 1802
MS. Abinger c. 42, fols. 19-20: 20 September 1805
MS. Abinger c. 9, fols. 107-8: 6 June 1806
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This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name	Number of Meetings
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	5
Northcote, James	4
Fenwick, John	3
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair)	3
Pinkerton, Ann (Nancy)	2
Holcroft, Thomas	2
Carlisle, Sir Anthony	2
Lee, Harriet	2
Dyson, George	2
Lee, Anna	1
Chandler, John Westbrooke	1
Skeys, Hugh	1
Fell, Ralph	1
Lamb, Charles	1
Davy, Sir Humphry	1
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley	1
Horne Tooke, John	1
Poole, Thomas	1
Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar)	1
Nicholson, William	1
Reynolds, Frederick	1
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Godwin)	1
Marshall, James	1
Opie, John	1
Parry,	1
Parry, Dr Caleb Hillier	1
Parry, Charles Henry	1
Webb,	1
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli)	1
Este, Reverend Charles	1
Pinkerton, John (pseudonym Robert Heron) (pseudonym H. Bennet)	1
King, John (Jacob Rey)	1
Bosville, William	1
	1
Danvers, Richard Augustus Butler	1
Inchbald, Elizabeth	1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial)	1

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