Richard Savage

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 and brief: her husband died by 1728.

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...

Chetwood (who published a number of women writers) dedicated the first, anonymous volume to the actress Anne Oldfield . A man, also anonymous, contributed a prefatory poem saying that EH had cured him of...

This novel reaped warm praise, not only from Savage (who hailed EH 's rising Name) but also from an unidentified contemporary, a young lady named Ma. A., author of a novel entitled...

This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels. Volume one features an elegant portrait of EH by Jacques Parmentier

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

SJ published, anonymously, The Life of Mr. Richard Savage; his subject, a personal friend, had died on 1 August 1743.

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...

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...

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...