Charlotte Smith:
(née Turner; 4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806).
English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and wrote political novels of sensibility. Despite ten novels, four children’s books and other works, she saw herself mainly as a poet and expected to be remembered for that.
Another May, new buds and flowers shall bring. Ah! Why has happiness no second spring?
