id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-268 Charlotte Turner Smith - Wikipedia .html text/html 5843 542 70 She wrote that she might "have been contented to reside in the same house with him", had not "his temper been so capricious and often so cruel" that her "life was not safe".[4] When Charlotte left Benjamin, she did not secure a legal agreement that would protect her profits — he would have access to them under English primogeniture laws.[3] Smith knew that her children's future rested on a successful settlement of the lawsuit over her father-in-law's will, therefore she made every effort to earn enough money to fund the suit and retain the family's genteel status.[4] Smith's novels were republished at the end of the 20th century, and critics "interested in the period's women poets and prose writers, the Gothic novel, the historical novel, the social problem novel, and post-colonial studies" have argued for her significance as a writer.[3] They concluded that she helped to revitalise the English sonnet, a view found in Coleridge and others. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-268.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-268.txt