Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
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Samuel Richardson
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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | During the same year, 1790, Johnson
published Young Grandison. A Series of Letters from Young Persons to Their Friends, MW
's free rendering of a Richardson
-inspired juvenile conduct book by the Dutchwoman Maria Geertruida van de Werken de Cambon |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz
. It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education |
| Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library
's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM
) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson
, to emulate Henry Fielding
and Smollett
... |
| Textual Production | Mehetabel Wright | Many of her poems, sent to relations, seem to have been lost in transit. Only a handful have been identified, though there may be more to come. Some which do survive are to be found... |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The 1809 title-page quotes Shakespeare
's The Merchant of Venice. In 1811 this place is taken by lines from Henry VI Part III, in which the future Richard III avows his villainy and... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Griffith | The letters are edited versions of those the couple exchanged in actual life, in which EG
's sense and worth persuaded Richard to marry her. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Textual Features | Sue Townsend | Townsend expresses sympathy over what she assumes to have been the pain and humiliation caused to Sheridan and other women writers by compulsory anonymity. Townsend, Sue, and Frances Sheridan. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Pandora Press, p. ix - xi. ix |
| Textual Features | Susan Smythies | An Advertisement to the Reader likens itself to a bill of fare or menu. SS
launches a defence of novels, specifically novels by women, in notably low-key style. Admitting that she is now guilty of... |
| Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Montgomery
. The story, set in the seventeenth century, opens as Iwanowna marries Frederic Moldovani on her nineteenth birthday. News of his death closes the first volume; but tragedy is held... |
| Textual Features | Frances Reynolds | FR
pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men. Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300. 2: 252 |
| Textual Features | Anita Brookner | AB
addresses her topic with gusto: The slashing and irreverent critics, often totally unqualified and inaccurate, now stand before us slightly scarred by the verdicts of posterity. Brookner, Anita. The Genius of the Future. Phaidon. 2 Not a historian of literature so much... |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Walker | The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Carter | As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC
addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary. Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6. 63 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Fenton | Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold. 1-2 |
| Textual Features | Eliza Parsons | The heroine is abandoned as a two-year-old on a beach in northern Ireland by a mysterious traveller, together with fine linen marked with an L. and an unexplained number. The locals are Nelly and Dermont... |
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