William Godwin's Diary

Smith, Charlotte (née Turner)

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 99 times, but was not at home (N) 9 times, and was a venue (V) 64 times.

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1797

2  May  1797 13  July  1797 15  July  1797 (V) 22  July  1797 25  July  1797 (V) 12  December  1797 (V) 22  December  1797 (V)

1798

5  January  1798 (V) 7  January  1798 10  January  1798 (V) 20  January  1798 (V) 25  January  1798 1  February  1798 (V) 10  February  1798 (V) 24  February  1798 (V) 3  March  1798 23  March  1798 7  April  1798 (V) 25  April  1798 (V) 21  May  1798 (V) 2  June  1798 (V) 12  June  1798 (V) 29  June  1798 (V) 12  July  1798 (NV) 24  July  1798 (V) 8  August  1798 (V) 27  August  1798 (V) 15  September  1798 (V) 23  September  1798 1  October  1798 (V) 17  October  1798 (V) 31  October  1798 (V) 20  November  1798 (V) 5  December  1798 (V) 10  December  1798 22  December  1798 (V) 24  December  1798 (V) 31  December  1798 (NV)

1799

4  January  1799 10  January  1799 (V) 19  January  1799 20  January  1799 5  February  1799 (V) 19  March  1799 (V) 27  March  1799 (NV) 6  April  1799 (V) 18  April  1799 (V) 15  May  1799 (V) 27  May  1799 (NV) 5  June  1799 (V) 22  July  1799 1  August  1799 (NV) 22  October  1799 (V) 7  November  1799 (V) 20  November  1799 (V) 11  December  1799 (NV) 14  December  1799 (V) 30  December  1799 (NV)

1800

8  January  1800 (V) 20  January  1800 (V) 12  February  1800 (V) 1  March  1800 (V) 4  March  1800 (V) 13  March  1800 (V) 3  April  1800 (NV) 11  April  1800 (V) 6  October  1800 18  November  1800 29  November  1800 3  December  1800 22  December  1800

1801

12  January  1801 5  February  1801 12  March  1801 (V) 24  December  1801 26  December  1801 (V)

1802

4  January  1802 (V) 8  January  1802 16  January  1802 (V) 26  January  1802 (V) 30  January  1802 11  February  1802 (V) 26  February  1802 (V) 15  March  1802 (NV) 31  March  1802 3  April  1802 (V) 3  April  1802 (V) 21  April  1802 19  June  1802 3  July  1802

1803

8  January  1803 24  May  1803

1805

26  March  1805 2  April  1805 (V) 13  April  1805 4  July  1805 12  September  1805

1806

6  June  1806 28  October  1806

  • Name: Smith, Charlotte (née Turner)
  • Gender: Female
  • Birth Date: 4  May  1749
  • Death Date: 28  October  1806
  • Occupation: novelist

Charlotte Smith was an acclaimed poet and novelist. She published Elegiac Sonnets in 1784, a collection which won her the admiration of Coleridge and which reached a ninth edition by 1800. Her novels include Desmond (1792) and The Old Manor House (1793). She wrote the prologue to Godwin' s Antonio.

Thanks to her letters in the Abinger collection we can be confident that Godwin is referring to her when he writes C Smith in the diary prior to her death in October 1806. He meets 'C Smith' with a number of people who can be linked to Charlotte, including blood and marital relations. References to C Smith and Mrs C or Cl Smith after her death may be attributed to an unidentified Cecil Smith and wife. Miss C/Cha Smith refers to her daughter, Charlotte Mary, who was her mother's amanuensis.

Godwin recorded her death.

  • MS. Abinger c. 3, fols. 95-6: [?11] September 1797
  • MS. Abinger c. 55, fols. 31-3: 24 October 1797
  • MS. Abinger c. 22, fols. 71-3: 24 October 1797
  • MS. Abinger c. 3, fols. 109-110: 7 Dec. [1797]
  • MS. Abinger c. 5, fols. 91-2: 27 February 1800
  • MS. Abinger c. 44, fols. 33-4: 2 April 1802
  • MS. Abinger c. 42, fols. 19-20: 20 September 1805
  • MS. Abinger c. 9, fols. 107-8: 6 June 1806
  • DNB.

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 5
Northcote, James 4
Fenwick, John 3
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) 3
Pinkerton, Ann (Nancy) 2
Holcroft, Thomas 2
Carlisle, Sir Anthony 2
Lee, Harriet 2
Dyson, George 2
Lee, Anna 1
Chandler, John Westbrooke 1
Skeys, Hugh 1
Fell, Ralph 1
Lamb, Charles 1
Davy, Sir Humphry 1
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1
Horne Tooke, John 1
Poole, Thomas 1
Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar) 1
Nicholson, William 1
Reynolds, Frederick 1
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Godwin) 1
Marshall, James 1
Opie, John 1
Parry, 1
Parry, Dr Caleb Hillier 1
Parry, Charles Henry 1
Webb, 1
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) 1
Este, Reverend Charles 1
Pinkerton, John (pseudonym Robert Heron) (pseudonym H. Bennet) 1
King, John (Jacob Rey) 1
Bosville, William 1
1
Danvers, Richard Augustus Butler 1
Inchbald, Elizabeth 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1