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"Exploring Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, author Bethan Roberts clarifies their 'place', understood in multiple ways, in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith's career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England"--

Sonnets, English. --- Elegiac poetry, English. --- Sonnets, English --- Elegiac poetry, English --- History and criticism. --- Smith, Charlotte, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Charlotte Smith --- sonnet --- literary history --- tradition --- place

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Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and

English fiction --- Labor in literature --- Women in literature --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- English literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Employment --- History --- Labor in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Charlotte Smith. --- Literary Fund. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- Sarah Scott. --- division of labour. --- female-authored fiction. --- gender. --- women authors. --- women's work. --- writing.