Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte
Smith's third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its
time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The
novel's heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French
convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac
poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship
novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the
beginning of the French Revolution, Smith's novel depicts
characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional
morality, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the
verge of a great change for the better.This Broadview edition
includes a critical introduction and primary source material
relating to the novel's reception, its political contexts (writings
by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and
Thomas Paine), and the author's life.
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