Cooper, Elizabeth. The Rival Widows. T. Woodward, 1735.
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Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant
and her father a Catholic
. They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Cooper | EC
called this book the first publick Tryal of my Muse. Cooper, Elizabeth. The Rival Widows. T. Woodward, 1735. v |
Dedications | Frances Sheridan | This novel was complete in itself; the sequel was not thought of till later. FS
dedicated it to Samuel Richardson
, who had been a strong supporter and who was to die only four months... |
Education | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | EPW
says nothing specific about her intellectual development, except that Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison had formed her mind and heart. Her education was clearly a good one that included much reading. |
Education | Catherine Carswell | In her unfinished autobiography, CC
remembers that while she grew up there were no novels in the house except Sir Walter Scott
's, and a small, fat, small-printed volume, bound in ornamental red and black... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | |
Education | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 10 |
Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson
) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Hankin, Christiana C.Editor , Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. 1: 118 |
Education | Mrs F. C. Patrick | She must have been well educated. She has a good grasp of history and politics, and of canonical English fiction from Richardson
to her own most respected immediate female predecessors. She took a wry interest... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
had two daughters or adopted daughters, Pamela
(named after Richardson
's fictional heroine) and Hermine. Pamela later married an Irish patriot, becoming Lady Edward Fitzgerald
. The question of her parentage, and indeed her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | Her mother, born Ann Diggs, was stepdaughter of the first colonial governor of Pennsylvania. Ann died in 1765, and like Elizabeth Singer Rowe
(and Richardson
's Clarissa) she left posthumous letters for delivery after her death. Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
's non-respectable situation as well as, it seems, her disposition, made it hard for her to form friendships with women. She always retained her devotion to Constantia Grierson
, before and after the latter's... |
Friends, Associates | Mehetabel Wright | Either now or later she met the writer John Duncombe
and painter Joseph Highmore
, as well as the novelist Samuel Richardson
. Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, No. 1, pp. 15 -38. 17, 27 |