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Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, And The Culture Of Celebrity.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2007

Charlotte Smith, Women Poets, And The Culture Of Celebrity.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

This essay examines intertextuality in writing (poetry especially) relating to Charlotte Smith, considering in detail how Smith appeared in the writings of other women writers. Smith's legacy was to inspire and people the poetry of her admirers and that legacy is a demonstrably gendered one. Her male admirers tended to wish to rescue her reputation from oblivion, while her female followers approach her as a source of inspiration and aspire to replicate her achievements in some way in their own work.