Samuel Richardson

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Standard Name: Richardson, Samuel
SR 's three epistolary novels, published between 1740 and 1753, exerted an influence on women's writing which was probably stronger than that of any other novelist, male or female, of the century. He also facilitated women's literary careers in his capacity as member of the publishing trade, and published a letter-writing manual and a advice-book for printers' apprentices.

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Textual Production Catharine Trotter
Critic Robert Adams Day ably summarised the virtues of this tale in 1969, well ahead of the explosion of interest in early women's writing. He pointed out the novelty of the middle-class heroine, chaste but...
Textual Production Jane Collier
JC sent Richardson two commentaries on Clarissa, the first dealing with the vexed issue of pornography in the fire scene.
Keymer, Tom. “Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Clarissa</span&gt”;. New Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 141-61.
149, 151-2, 154
Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels was posthumously published, with a preface which may be by Samuel Richardson .
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
8: 416
Textual Production Jane Collier
JC published, anonymously, An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, printed by Samuel Richardson .
Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press.
xxxiii
Keymer, Tom. “Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Clarissa</span&gt”;. New Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 141-61.
146
Textual Production Mary Howitt
Notable among MH 's large fictional output are didactic stories like Johnny Derbyshire, a Country Quaker (written jointly with her husband). She and Elizabeth Gaskell swapped ghost stories by letter, but MH would not encourage...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
FB apologised to Thomas Cadell about her delay (caused by ill-health) in completing a life of Samuel Richardson .Cadell, Jr
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix.
xlix
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
187, 234n1
Textual Production Sarah Scott
SS and Lady Barbara Montagu published through Samuel Richardson a set of educational cards for teaching history and geography.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
xxii-xxiii, xliv
Textual Production Frances Brooke
Susanna Duncombe offered FB permission to use (for her life of Richardson ) Duncombe's now well-known sketch of him reading aloud.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
188
Textual Production Helena Wells
She published this with Longman , signing her preface Helena Wells Whitford, though the title-page says only by the Author of the Step-Mother. Subscribers included Joanna Baillie and Anne Hunter . The title-page...
Textual Production Catherine Talbot
CT was one of those whose criticisms and suggestions helped to shape the final form of Richardson 's final novel, Sir Charles Grandison.
Textual Production Frances Brooke
FB 's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Samuel Richardson was published in the Universal Magazine.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
188-9
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford.
276
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
Noble published a posthumous edition of The Agreeable Caledonian (1728) with EH 's own revisions, entitled Clementina (perhaps implying a relationship to Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison).
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
297-8
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
25 (1768): 59
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press.
178
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
SF published anonymously her Remarks on Clarissa, Addressed to the Author.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
xxxix
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
CL 's friends Samuel Johnson and Samuel Richardson both saw her as a professional writer with a career to fashion: a career which needed her presence in London, heart of the publishing industry. Richardson...
Textual Production Mary Masters
Not included in her collection, though it is a form of letter, was a petition to Samuel Richardson , written and signed by MM and Anna Williams in 1753 (probably before August) for delivery by...

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