Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Sophia Briscoe
Standard Name: Briscoe, Sophia
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Doubts about her authorship were intensified by the discovery that the minor novelist Sophia Briscoe
received payment (twelve guineas) for this novel. |
| Textual Production | Sir Walter Scott | Fifty years before that, lengths and prices had been more various. Three-volume novels were already standard, but whereas The History of Lady Barton by Elizabeth Griffith
and The Old Maid by Ann Skinn
, both... |
Timeline
1771: In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds painted,...
Women writers item
1771
In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted, as Girl Reading, his niece Theophila Palmer
perusing Richardson
's Clarissa, five novels by women advertised their Clarissa kinship.
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