Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | The heroine's name, Clarissa, is presumably a belated tribute to Richardson
. It is hard to gauge the weight of the allusion. Beautiful, dignified, superior, and so forth, Clarissa Dorrington is persecuted by her guardian's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her choice of genres came from her reading in French, not English, fiction, though Louisa (one of two survivors from a cycle of tales set at the court of Louis XIV
of France) also... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | SS
had trouble securing a publisher for this novel. Because of this, Samuel Richardsonadvised her to try her Friends by a private Subscription, which turned out a success beyond her Hopes. Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon. 464 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marjorie Bowen | MB
recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson
's Idylls of the King, Wilde
's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott
, and Richardson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | In The Wayward (Weird) Sister the same character is writing a journal which owes its origin to Samuel Richardson
, that is to Miss Byron, the indefatigable Miss Byron, and Clementina. Oh, but I shall... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mehetabel Wright | Wedlock, now well-known, is a poem of vituperative denunciation. Another of her poems describes and praises a woman based on Richardson
's Clarissa. Knights, Elspeth. “’Daring to Touch the Hem of her Garment’: Women Reading <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Clarissa</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 221-45. 222-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | The first anecdote about the girls is sentimental in tone. The sweet and lovely Miss Menil reforms the eleven-year-old malicious telltale Miss Cummings by taking her part when she has done wrong. Miss Cummings, filled... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alison Cockburn | The earliest letter addressed to David Hume, written on 20 August 1764, is rather elaborately jokey: Idol of Gaul, I worship thee not. The very cloven foot for which thou art worship'd I despise, yet... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | MA
influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Mary Chudleigh
, Elizabeth Thomas
, Judith Drake
, Damaris Masham
(although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob
, and Jane Barker |
Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville
on the pains of sensibility. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,. Emma. T. Hookham. 1: 66 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | SS
's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson
's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Though the Quarterly Review announced the novel in April, AOK
signed her statement To the Public (written at Chichester in Sussex) in May. She includes in her preliminary pages a list of fictional correspondents... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond, a young man seeking a role-model, turns at first to Fielding
's Tom Jones, but later and more laudably to Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Webster Foster | Critic Ruth Perry
has noted that The Coquette is a late example of a numerous group: the woman's novel strongly influenced by Richardson
's Clarissa. Perry, Ruth. “Clarissa’s Daughters, or The History of Innocence Betrayed. How Women Writers Rewrote Richardson”. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, pp. 119-41. 124 |
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