Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
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Samuel Richardson
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Standard Name: Richardson, Samuel
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'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 Features | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
| Textual Features | Harriette Wilson | Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject. |
| Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson
and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding
and Samuel Richardson
, which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen... |
| Textual Features | Anne Grant | AG
is a conscious artist as a letter-writer, playing with the influence not only of Richardson
but also, in later years, of Hugh Blair
's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The earliest letters... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | Though most of her letters to Samuel Richardson
are mainly domestic in content, those of the 1750s (on the composition of his novels and all kinds of gender issues arising from that) may quite fairly... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Bonhote | In the dedication EB
writes of her works as her children. Emelia Fitzroy (whose mother is dead and father in the army) stays in London with her friend Lavinia Seyton, and is subsequently forced to... |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to... |
| Textual Features | Jane Porter | JP
opens her story in early 1792, on the eve of Poland's unsuccessful bid for independence in the Kościuszko
Uprising, and continues it in London, which was beginning to function as a haven... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | Whereas Samuel Richardson
had criticised William Whitehead
's The Roman Father, saying that it validated personal feeling at the expense of patriotism, the author of the pamphlet takes issue with Richardson
and defends Whitehead's... |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The 1809 title-page quotes Shakespeare
's The Merchant of Venice. In 1811 this place is taken by lines from Henry VI Part III, in which the future Richard III avows his villainy and... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Griffith | The letters are edited versions of those the couple exchanged in actual life, in which EG
's sense and worth persuaded Richard to marry her. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Textual Features | Susan Smythies | An Advertisement to the Reader likens itself to a bill of fare or menu. SS
launches a defence of novels, specifically novels by women, in notably low-key style. Admitting that she is now guilty of... |
| Textual Features | Sue Townsend | Townsend expresses sympathy over what she assumes to have been the pain and humiliation caused to Sheridan and other women writers by compulsory anonymity. Townsend, Sue, and Frances Sheridan. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Pandora Press, p. ix - xi. ix |
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