Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
xxii-xxiii, xliv
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Sarah Scott | SS
and Lady Barbara Montagu
published through Samuel Richardson
a set of educational cards for teaching history and geography. |
| Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
was one of those whose criticisms and suggestions helped to shape the final form of Richardson
's final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. |
| Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Samuel Richardson was published in the Universal Magazine. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 188-9 Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 276 |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | SF
published anonymously her Remarks on Clarissa, Addressed to the Author. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | CL
's friends Samuel Johnson
and Samuel Richardson
both saw her as a professional writer with a career to fashion: a career which needed her presence in London, heart of the publishing industry. Richardson... |
| Textual Production | Mary Masters | Not included in her collection, though it is a form of letter, was a petition to Samuel Richardson
, written and signed by MM
and Anna Williams
in 1753 (probably before August) for delivery by... |
| Textual Production | Anna Williams | |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | Noble
published a posthumous edition of The Agreeable Caledonian (1728) with EH
's own revisions, entitled Clementina (perhaps implying a relationship to Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison). Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 297-8 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 25 (1768): 59 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press. 178 |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's edition of Samuel Richardson
's Correspondence appeared in six volumes; she abridged the letters she chose by an average of about 30% and changed at least one or two words in all of them. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Richardson’s Correspondence? A Study of Her Editing”. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Vol. 54 , pp. 191-23. |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | She had written most of it by November 1751. With Johnson
as mediator, she consulted Richardson
about revisions, denouement, optimum length (she reduced her plan from three volumes to two), and about her choice of... |
| Textual Production | Hannah Glasse | This publication history shows the nature of the unfettered, cut-throat publishing world of the mid eighteenth century. John Exshaw
of Dublin, where in 1762 neither the Eales nor the Glasse work had appeared, had probably... |
| Textual Production | Hester Mulso Chapone | As a member of the Richardson
circle, his informal core committee of collaborators on his second and third novels, Hester Mulso had some influence on the shaping of Clarissa, both through face-to-face conversation and... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | EH
was early in the field of adverse comment on Samuel Richardson
's Pamela, with a burlesque fiction, Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 353-60 Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlii. xli |
| Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | At about the same age she wrote two sermons, now lost. Eugenia and Adelaide was surreptitiously written, because of her father's dislike of women's scribbling. Frances wrote enough for two volumes, on paper purloined... |
| Textual Production | Jane Johnson | JJ
interrupted a letter of tentative moral advice to her friend Mrs Brompton, to cast her thoughts into fiction: The History of Miss Clarissa of Buckinghamshire, who is descended from Richardson
's Clarissa, but... |
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