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Article: Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Writing the Lives of Writers. Ed. by WARWICK GOULD and THOMAS F. STALEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, in assn with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 1998. xvi + 328 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling].
Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. By LORAINE FLETCHER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. xvi + 401 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling].
In the early eighteenth century the rogue bookseller Edmund Curll invented a new kind of biography of recently dead celebrities, based on private papers and scandalous rumour: Pope's friend John Arbuthnot joked that Curll had succeeded in adding ...