Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Gunning | This non-epistolary novel is broadly satirical. The protagonist's name, Clarissa, makes ironical reference to Richardson
. The opening pages relate, as prologue, the early married life of her terribly young parents, Sir Frederick and Lady... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | This novel is a tale of seduction, repentance, and forgiveness in the city of New York. Richardson
's Clarissa is a formative influence, but Rowson softens the story of Clarissa by allowing Charlotte's father... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | Woodville/Davenant credits his rescue from dissipation and folly partly to the virtuous Fanny Holford, Margaret. Fanny: A Novel: In a Series of Letters. W. Richardson. 2: 1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | The novel, which quotes Isaac Watts
on its title-page and is again set in Ireland, adds gothic touches to a domestic story. While shut up in a country house the heroine reads Richardson
's Clarissa. |
| 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. |
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