[1784] - Charlotte Smith publishes first edition of Elegiac Sonnets

Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), engraved by Pierre Condé from a portrait by John Opie, published 1797

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Internet Archive, ‘Elegiac Sonnets’,
  http://www.archive.org/stream/elegiacsonnetsa00smitgoog#page/n10/mode/2up
• British Women Romantic Poets Project, ‘Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems’,
  http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/Works/SmitCElegi.htm
• University of Nebraska, ‘The Works of Charlotte Smith’,
  http://cdrh.unl.edu/ctsmithsite/intro.html
• Javier Huerta, ‘Ghosts in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets’,
  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/ghosts-in-charlotte-smiths-elegiac-sonnets/
• Jacqueline M. Labbe, ‘Smith, Wordsworth, and the Model of the Romantic Poet’, Romanticism on the Net, 51 (2008),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ravon/2008/v/n51/019257ar.html
• Daniel Robinson, ‘Reviving the Sonnet: Women Romantic Poets and the Sonnet Claim’, European Romantic Review, 6 (1995), 98–127
• Elizabeth A. Dolan, ‘British Romantic Melancholia: Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets, Medical Discourse, and the Problem of Sensibility’, Journal of European Studies, 33.3–4 (2003), 237–53
• Jacqueline M. Labbe, Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry, and the Culture of Gender (Manchester, 2003)