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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Sarah Fielding
She described herself as the Author of David Simple on the title-page of this and of all her subsequent fictional works. She did not put her name on a title-page until her last book. This...
Publishing Elizabeth Carter
EC published her scholarly translation of All the Works of Epictetus, by subscription, as a handsome folio printed by Samuel Richardson .
Richardson, Samuel. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin. Editor Sabor, Peter, Cambridge University Press.
726
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
169
Publishing Sarah Chapone
It was printed by Samuel Richardson . The British Library copy is T 1568 (7). The month after publication SC wrote to Richardson to express concern that he had identified her as the author: I...
Publishing Elizabeth Carter
Correspondence between EC and Richardson appeared in print in the Monthly Magazine (ten pages in volume 33) as Original letters of Miss E. Carter and Mr Samuel Richardson
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
Publishing Mary Astell
Astell alleges a specific provocation for it: she had just been reading the duchess's memoirs, a case-study of a bad marriage, in which both sides were to blame.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
153
Her book reached a fourth edition...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield
Publishing Mary Leapor
A second volume of ML 's Poems upon Several Occasions was printed by Richardson , with a new subscription list.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press.
27
Publishing Mary Chandler
Samuel Richardson , in London, did another anonymous printing of MC 's A Description of Bath.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(September 1734): 51
Publishing Mary Chandler
She dedicated it to her doctor brother John , saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad—
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, pp. 33-49.
36
that is, to appear in print before the public. She said it was...
Publishing Mary Masters
This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies)
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press.
1: 409-10
included Samuel Johnson , Mrs Gardiner of Snow-Hill, Thomas Birch , a John Cockburne who may well have...
Publishing Frances Sheridan
Publisher Robert Dodsley rejected FS 's romance Eugenia and Adelaide, which had been submitted to him through the good offices of Samuel Richardson .
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
x
Publishing Anna Williams
AW 's Verses to Mr. Richardson , on his Publication of Sir Charles Grandison appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books.
28-9
Publishing Sarah Fielding
SF published by subscription The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, printed by Samuel Richardson as by the Author of David Simple.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
xl
Publishing Anna Williams
She wanted to have Richardson 's opinion, as a leading London printer, as to whether a scientific dictionary might be profitable in this age of dictionaries. She had been meditat[ing] her scheme for a long...
Publishing Mary Barber
This month Barber's teenage son Rupert was on duty all day to dispense copies to subscribers, at the painter's house in Covent Garden where he was a student or apprentice.
Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, pp. 155-74.
172n13
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