Jonty Claypole

You're not selling your fridge, Sophie.

I don't know.

I opened the door of the fridge to get a beer and instead I get some really kind of long, sombre... I suppose so.

He was the Lucian Freud of his day.

Yes, you're quite right.

She's so extraordinary.

I mean, she's just a complete outlier, isn't she?

You know, Britons ought to be more proud that they have Mary Wollstonecraft in their history.

Yeah.

Like her poster should be on every teenager's room next to the posters of Che Guevara.

You know, she's such a... 100%.

Yeah.

Sophie, we've had two extraordinary women already, which would be an episode enough.

But there's there's so many of these of these extraordinary child lasers.

So we're going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back for a couple more.

And we're back.

So the next writer we're going to talk about is Charlotte Smith.

Now, our subscribers may be familiar with Charlotte Smith because we did in our sonnet sequence, we did an episode on one of Charlotte Smith's sonnets.

And Charlotte Smith...

basically sort of brings the sonnet back to English literature in earnest in the 1780s and kind of kickstarts romanticism as a movement, although her role in that is sort of written out later on.