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]
Plot
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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
- The law
- Shakespeare, Shylock, and Usury
- The Gothic
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
- ^ Fletcher, Loraine (1998). Charlotte Smith, A Critical Biography. Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press. p. 250.
- ^ Fletcher, Loraine (1998). Charlotte Smith, A Critical Biography. Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press. p. 255.
- ^ "Marchmont: A Novel". The Analytical Review. 25.5.
- ^ "Marchmont". Monthly Review. 22.
- ^ "Marchmont: a Novel". The Monthly visitor and entertaining pocket companion. 1.
- ^ "Marchmont: a Novel". The Critical review. 19.