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Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh
Standard Name: Bradshaigh, Dorothy,,, Lady
Connections
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Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | This work, no longer attributed to SF
's single authorship, was printed, as several of hers were, by Samuel Richardson
. But letters written about it by Lady Barbara Montagu
(friend and partner of the... |
Reception | Teresia Constantia Phillips | An outcry greeted the publication, and pamphlets of attack and defence followed. The Gentleman's Magazine printed two anonymous epistles addresssed to TCP
in August. After the second volume appeared, Henry Muilman
made an attempt to... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. |
Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | In Fielding's detailed comparison of the novel with Don Quixote, Lennox emerges superior to Cervantes
in morality, probability, and character-drawing, though Cervantes is superior in other ways. This enthusiastic review was widely reprinted. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 176 |
Literary responses | Samuel Richardson | With Clarissa's rape and death, Richardson's circle became more critical than they had been all along, and objections from them and other readers began flowing thick and fast. The whole novel was discussed in print... |
Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | Samuel Richardson
respected The Cry as a new Species of Writing, sent copies to two friends (Sophia Wescomb
and Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh
), and wanted it to go into a second edition— Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Griffith | The original letters were immensely popular with readers (among others Sarah Harriet Burney
was a devotee); their authors became famous under their pseudonyms. Not everyone agreed in admiring them, however. Lady Bradshaigh
remarked to Samuel Richardson |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Richardson | His close friends, too, included a remarkable number of writing women: among others Sarah Fielding
, sister of his literary arch-rival, Jane Collier
, Hester Mulso (later Chapone)
, Susanna Highmore (later Duncombe)
, and... |
Timeline
Probably 10 July 1748: Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh, wrote her first...
Writing climate item
Probably 10 July 1748
February 1755: Samuel Richardson read the alternative ending...
Writing climate item
February 1755
Samuel Richardson
read the alternative ending to his novelClarissa that Lady Echlin
(sister of Lady Bradshaigh
) had been spurred to write by her revulsion at Clarissa's rape and unmerited death.
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