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Beachy Head: with other poems, by Charlotte Smith, published 1807 (London: J. Johnson) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Charlotte Smith, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.15-19) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Charlotte Smith, Sussex Poet, by Kenneth Povey, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 13, article, pp.567-571) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Charlotte Smith, Sussex Poet, by Harold Van Tromp, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 10, article, pp.634-638) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), by Ronald Tibble, published September 1989 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 44, article, p.2) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/44] & The Keep [LIB/500482]

Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography, by Loraine Fletcher, published 1998 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., ISBN-10: 0333678451 & ISBN-13: 9780333678459) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen. Combative and witty she became a radical, controversial and very popular author: at a time when the French Revolution was raising high hopes of Reform, she argued for change in England too. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing the embattled life in the wonderfully self-dramatising fiction.

Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography, by Loraine Fletcher, published 2001 (xi + 401 pp + 8 pp. of plates, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., ISBN-13: 9780333949467) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen. Combative and witty she became a radical, controversial and very popular author: at a time when the French Revolution was raising high hopes of Reform, she argued for change in England too. Loraine Fletcher's vivid scholarly biography is as readable for the newcomer to the 1790s as for the specialist, tracing the embattled life in the wonderfully self-dramatising fiction.

Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender, by Jacqueline M. Labbe, published 2011 (256 pp., Manchester University Press, ISBN-10: 0719083214 & ISBN-13: 9780719083211) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender argues that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender. Offering a thorough and comprehensive reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, Labbe demonstrates that Smith is both more canny about the attractions of gender than has previously been recognised, and more experimental in her deployments of gendered subjectivities. In this way she is a key player in the formation of Romanticism as a style and as an approach. Covering all Smith's major poetry (Elegiac Sonnets, The Emigrants and Beachy Head), as well as the prose apparatus to the poetry (prefaces, dedications and footnotes), this book reads Smith's work in light of her self-representations as a poet, mother and social critic, and uncovers a hitherto unexamined coherence in both content and style. Smith is shown to be both an innovator and a significant figure in understanding Romantic conceptions of gender. As the first book devoted to a serious critical study of Smith's poetry, Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender will appeal to professional scholars and students alike.