Richard Savage

Standard Name: Savage, Richard

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Isabella Spence
The title-page quotes Richard Savage on the feelings aroused by being an unguided orphan. The protagonist (on balance) of this story, Matilda Trevanion, is eight when it opens, and the people around her home in...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Plumptre
AP quotes Pope on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare , Thomson , Savage , and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is...
Occupation Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...
Textual Production Samuel Johnson
SJ published, anonymously, The Life of Mr. Richard Savage; his subject, a personal friend, had died on 1 August 1743.
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press.
2: 435-6
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Jacson
Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Haywood
After a possible affair with Richard Savage , EH seems to have begun her twenty-year liaison with William Hatchett , playwright and seemingly quintessential Grub Street hack,
Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, pp. 237-51.
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who was probably the father of her second child.
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlii.
xxxix-xl
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dedications Eliza Haywood
EH issued her third singly-published novel this year, The Rash Resolve, dedicated to Lady Rumney or Romney , with 1724 on its title-page and a prefatory poem by Richard Savage .
Lady Romney, a...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Haywood
EH may have married in Ireland, while she was there in 1715. She says in letters of the late 1720s that her marriage was unfortunate
Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, Vol.
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, pp. 535-52.
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and brief: her husband died by 1728.
He was...
Friends, Associates Eliza Haywood
At this point in her life EH entered on literary relationships with Aaron Hill (who, with some gallant condescension, was a good friend to women writers) and his circle. They included Richard Savage (who has...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
Chetwood (who published a number of women writers) dedicated the first, anonymous volume to the actress Anne Oldfield .
Haywood, Eliza. Love in Excess. Editor Oakleaf, David, Broadview.
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A man, also anonymous, contributed a prefatory poem saying that EH had cured him of...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
This novel reaped warm praise, not only from Savage (who hailed EH 's rising Name)
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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but also from an unidentified contemporary, a young lady named Ma. A., author of a novel entitled...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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Volume one features an elegant portrait of EH by Jacques Parmentier
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
This year EH was praised by James Sterling , but compared to her disadvantage with Martha Fowke by Richard Savage .
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage , Martha Fowke , and David Mallet , and their attacks established the convention that...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The full title was Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, return'd from a thirteen years slavery in America, where he had been sent by the wicked contrivances of his cruel uncle. A story founded on...

Timeline

2 April 1698: Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield, was...

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2 April 1698

Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield , was divorced by Act of Parliament; this was the first civil divorce (not first passed by an ecclesiastical court).

February 1726: Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous...

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February 1726

Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: dedicated to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , it included work by Eliza Haywood , Martha Fowke , and Miranda Hill .

25 June 1737: Richard Savage protested against slavery...

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25 June 1737

Richard Savage protested against slavery in his poemOf Public Spirit in Regard to Public Works (an expansion of the previous year's A Poem on the Birth-Day of the Prince of Wales).

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