Reveals the extent to which Charlotte Turner Smith's work constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry, representing the turbulent decade of the 1790s on its social and political, as well as literary, planes with an unparalleled richness of detail and an unblinkered vision.

Stuart Curran,

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References and Further Reading -- Ethelinde, or the Recluse of the Lake -- Explanatory Notes -- Textual Notes.