Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, pp. 15-38. 17, 27
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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Fielding | SF
's important friendship with Samuel Richardson
probably dates from about 1744. In 1750 he included her and Jane Collier
in a list of thirty-six superior women, most of them his friends. Through Richardson she... |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | SC
was a great networker. Having met George Ballard
, a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob
and to... |
| 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 | Susan Smythies | It sounds as if SS
knew or was known to Samuel Richardson
and some members of his circle. He and all his family subscribed to her last novel, and correspondence relating to Smythies passed between... |
| 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
. |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
| Friends, Associates | Clara Reeve | Among her friends were Martha Bridgen
(daughter of Samuel Richardson
), Thomas Percy
, and Joseph Cooper Walker Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press. xviii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Latter | An unnamed correspondent whom Latter mentions in her first-published volume (an unmarried woman or girl) was a friend of Lady Echlin
(in turn the friend of and commentator on Samuel Richardson
). Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock. 65 |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Talbot | Six months later CT
was staying with the duchess on an extended visit. She was also a good friend of Elizabeth Montagu
(of whose closeness to Carter she was sometimes jealous); of Montagu's friends George Lyttelton |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Collier | JC
was a lifelong friend of Sarah Fielding
and her brother Henry
(who famously mentioned in a book inscription her understanding more than Female, mixed with virtues almost more than human), Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 14 |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | CL
won the enduring friendship of Samuel Johnson
and Samuel Richardson
. (With Johnson she quarrelled at least once, and he took pains to heal the breach.) She introduced Giuseppe Baretti
to Johnson, and had... |
| Friends, Associates | Hester Mulso Chapone | Hester Mulso became a member of Samuel Richardson
's circle (as depicted in the well-known drawing by Susanna Highmore
), and engaged with him in lively debate on the position, status, and duties of unmarried... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Sheridan | In London they quickly acquired an influential and highly talented circle of friends, including Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Edward Young
, Frances Brooke
, Sarah Scott
, and Sarah Fielding
. Richardson admired... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | Georgina, heroine of this novel, seems to contradict the (comparatively) egalitarian message of the previous one, since her eventual marriage choice is negatively directed by the need for people to marry within their rank. She... |
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