Loraine Fletcher

CS 's father-in-law, Richard Smith , treated her kindly despite the cultural gulf between them: she liked him, although it was a shock to her that he owned and traded in slaves. Later he effectively...

CS 's biographer Loraine Fletcher gives a whole chapter to Austen 's response to her work.

Notable features of the book are the friendship between the heroine, Celestina, and a servant, Jessy (whose life-story is one of oppression and deprivation), and the handling of a prostitute (seduced at the age of...

CS had been writing this novel through the momentous revolutionary events in France; she was working on it in Brighton in November 1790 when Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France was published. She...

CS has enjoyed a recent renaissance, with Stuart Curran 's edition of her poems, 1993, her Major Poetical Works edited by Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks , 2017, Curran's fourteen-volume collected works from Pickering and Chatto

CS 's Beachy Head, Fables, and Other Poems appeared, through Joseph Johnson , three months after her death.