Elizabeth, Lady Echlin

An unnamed correspondent whom Latter mentions in her first-published volume (an unmarried woman or girl) was a friend of Lady Echlin (in turn the friend of and commentator on Samuel Richardson ). Late in...

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...

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...

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...