Marchmont (novel)

Marchmont is Charlotte Turner Smith's ninth novel, and follows the story of her heroine, Althea Dacres, and the Marchmont family. It was published in August 1796.[1]

Characters

Major characters

  • Althea Dacres (heroine)
  • Edmund Marchmont
  • Mr. Vampyre

Minor characters

  • Mr. Mohun
  • Sir Audley Dacres
  • Lady Dacres
  • Sir Armyn Marchmont (deceased)
  • Mrs. Trevyllian

Major themes

Reception

Fletcher writes Marchmont was "in general very well received and represented in columes of extracts, a good indicator of popularity, more often than other novels of that year."[2]

For example, one reviewer writes:

The present novel is certainly spun out in the beginning, and wound up too hastily at the conclusion; still the design of showing the misery, which unprincipled men of the law may bring on the innocent, is well imagined.[3]

There were many other contemporary reviews, reflecting similar sentiments, including reviews in Monthly Review,[4] The Monthly Visitor and Entertaining Pocket Companion,[5] and The Critical Review.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Fletcher, Loraine (1998). Charlotte Smith, A Critical Biography. Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press. p. 250.
  2. ↑ Fletcher, Loraine (1998). Charlotte Smith, A Critical Biography. Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press. p. 255.
  3. ↑ "Marchmont: A Novel". The Analytical Review. 25.5.
  4. ↑ "Marchmont". Monthly Review. 22.
  5. ↑ "Marchmont: a Novel". The Monthly visitor and entertaining pocket companion. 1.
  6. ↑ "Marchmont: a Novel". The Critical review. 19.
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