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See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH, See also:CHARLOTTE (1749-1806) , See also:English novelist and poet, eldest daughter of See also:Nicholas See also:Turner of Stoke See also:House, See also:Surrey, was See also:born in See also:London on the 4th of May 1749. She See also:left school when she was twelve years old to enter society. She married in 1765 See also:Benjamin Smith, son of a See also:merchant who was a director of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company. They lived at first with her See also:father-in-See also:law, who thought highly of her business abilities, and wished to keep her with him; but in 1774 Charlotte and her See also:husband went to live in See also:Hampshire. The See also:elder Smith died in 1776, leaving a complicated will, and six years later Benjamin Smith was imprisoned for See also:debt. Charlotte Smith's first publication was Elegiac Sonnets
and other Essays (1784), dedicated by permission to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Hayley, and printed at her own expense. For some months Mrs Smith and her See also:family lived in a tumble-down See also:chateau near See also:Dieppe, where she produced a See also:translation of Manon Lescaut (1785) and a See also:Romance of Real See also:Life (1786), borrowed from See also:Les Causes Celebres. On her return to See also:England Mrs Smith carried out a friendly separation between herself and her husband, and thenceforward devoted herself to novel See also:writing. Her See also:chief See also:works are: Emmeline, or the See also:Orphan of the See also:Castle (1788); See also:Celestina (1792); See also:Desmond (1792); The Old See also:Manor House (1793); The See also:Young Philosopher (1798); and Conversations introducing See also:Poetry (1804). She died at Tilford, near See also:Farnham, Surrey, on the 28th of See also:October 18o6. She had twelve See also:children, one of whom, Lionel (1778-1842), See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-See also:general in the See also:army. He became K.C.B. in 1832 and from 1833 to 1839 was See also:governor of the Windward and Leeward Islands.
Charlotte Smith's novels were highly praised by her contem-
vraries and are still noticeable for their ease and See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace of See also:style. ayley said that Emmeline, considering the situation of the author, was the most wonderful See also:production he had ever seen, and not inferior to any See also:book in that fascinating See also:species of See also:composition (See also:Nichols, Illustrations of Literature, vii. 708). The best See also:account of Mrs Smith is by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, and is based on material supplied by her See also:sister, Mrs See also:Dorset, with a detailed See also:criticism of her See also:work by Scott (Misc. See also:Prose Works, 1841, i. 348-359). Charlotte Smith is best remembered by her charming poems for children.
End of Article: SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
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