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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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Clara Reeve | Among her friends were Martha Bridgen
(daughter of Samuel Richardson
), Thomas Percy
, and Joseph Cooper Walker Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | The Critical Review evaluated this novel respectfully, calling it pleasing and interesting, but John Noorthouck
, writing in the Monthly, dismissed it impatiently as one of the regrettably numerous progeny of Samuel Richardson
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 544 |
| Textual Features | Jane Porter | JP
opens her story in early 1792, on the eve of Poland's unsuccessful bid for independence in the Kościuszko
Uprising, and continues it in London, which was beginning to function as a haven... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | Lionel's feelings for her are mediated through the comments of other characters, his realisation that Dick Ryder secretly loves her, and his growing familiarity with her as a family friend. Harry, meanwhile, faces several new... |
| Friends, Associates | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
's non-respectable situation as well as, it seems, her disposition, made it hard for her to form friendships with women. She always retained her devotion to Constantia Grierson
, before and after the latter's... |
| Reception | Teresia Constantia Phillips | An outcry greeted the publication, and pamphlets of attack and defence followed. The Gentleman's Magazine printed two anonymous epistles addresssed to TCP
in August. After the second volume appeared, Henry Muilman
made an attempt to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner. Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson. 1: 7-8 |
| Education | Mrs F. C. Patrick | She must have been well educated. She has a good grasp of history and politics, and of canonical English fiction from Richardson
to her own most respected immediate female predecessors. She took a wry interest... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs F. C. Patrick | In the course of a busy plot Augusta is abducted, but saves herself from a forced marriage (her mother, the instigator of this outrage, affects to think her married in the sight of Heaven) by... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | EP
follows in the tradition of Richardson
, both in her general scheme and in details like an incident involving a male character and his kept mistress. At the outset each of the central friends... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | The opening words leave no doubt that this is in a different style from EP
's domestic novels: No sooner had the struggling soul escaped from the clay-cold body of Count Renaud, than his eldest... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | The novel opens, after a bow in the direction of the huge extent of the Ardenne Forest in the time of the Romans, with its offering at the time of the novel, as shelter for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | Georgina, heroine of this novel, seems to contradict the (comparatively) egalitarian message of the previous one, since her eventual marriage choice is negatively directed by the need for people to marry within their rank. She... |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
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