Richardson, Samuel. Sir Charles Grandison. Editor Harris, Jocelyn, Oxford University Press.
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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 Production | Sarah Daniels | In 2004 SD
adapted at least two works for radio. She compressed Samuel Richardson
's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded into a two-part radio play with one hour per episode. She based The Long Wait... |
| Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | When Nathalie Sarraute
argued that the novel is a dead form,CM
thought of three examples to prove her wrong: Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
's La Princesse de Clèves, Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa, and... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | In 1747 Samuel Richardson
printed in the first instalment of his novel Clarissa an Ode to Wisdom which was actually by EC
, though he later said he did not at this time know its... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | At her death ESR
emulated the characters in her own Friendship in Death (and anticipated Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa) by leaving letters to her friends for posthumous delivery. |
| Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | The Fountain's publisher, Congregationalist minister Joseph Parker
, was a family friend. In addition to her publications in this newspaper, JOH
was writing letters, other stories, and plays that she mounted at home in... |
| Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe. The novel is available... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | This work, no longer attributed to SF
's single authorship, was printed, as several of hers were, by Samuel Richardson
. But letters written about it by Lady Barbara Montagu
(friend and partner of the... |
| 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 | Elizabeth Carter | Anna Letitia Barbauld
first revealed that EC
wrote five paragraphs (regarded as authoritative) in a conversational debate among characters in Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison on Man's usurpation, and woman's natural independency. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR
by George Vertue
, which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 17 |
| Textual Production | Jane Collier | JC
wrote to Samuel Richardson
to explain why he ought not to make a change he wished to in Sarah Fielding
's The Governess. Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press. xxix-xxx |
| 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
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>”;. New Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 141-61. 149, 151-2, 154 |
| 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 | 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>”;. New Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 141-61. 146 |
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