Emmeline is one of the most delightful, absorbing English novels of the eighteenth century, at turns sentimental and hilariously comic. We are lucky to have Loraine Fletcher's beautifully contextualized, well-annotated edition in print. - Adela Pinch, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor This is an exemplary edition. In her authoritative introduction, Loraine Fletcher contextualizes Emmeline as ... Read morean early romantic work, influenced by Rousseau, contrasting with Fanny Burney and, surprisingly, repudiated as a bad example by Mary Wollstonecraft. The inclusion of Mary Hays's account of the desperate but heroic author's life is especially welcome. - Sybil Oldfield, University of Sussex One of the fascinations of Charlotte Smith is the way in which she epitomizes the political, cultural, economic, and literary cross-currents of the later eighteenth century, and Fletcher has done a masterful job of contextualizing Smith in all of these ways. With an introduction that touches upon all of the elements key to understanding the complexity of Smith's work, and with the copious appendices characteristic of Broadview texts, this edition should prove an invaluable tool for scholars of all levels. Judith Davis Miller, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield Fletcher includes contemporary reviews of the novel, portions of critical treatises on the position of women and marriage, and excerpts from Smith contemporaries such as Mary Collier, Edmund Burke, Hester Chapone, John Gregory, and Mary Wollstonecraft, making this an invaluable introduction to eighteenth-century feminine fiction. - Mary Anne Schofield, Eighteenth-Century Fiction Show Less