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.
Stipple engraving of Samuel Richardson, used by Anna Letitia Barbauld in her edition of Richardson's correspondence. He is standing with his right hand tucked into his jacket and a book in his left hand; in the related painting by Joseph Highmore, Richardson holds a paper instead of a book.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Julia Frankau
JF loved to read the current books but had no interest in the lives of the authors. Among literature of the past she much admired that of the eighteenth century, and particularly Richardson 's Clarissa...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales and his mistress Lady Jersey downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox , apostrophised as one of the great and...
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.
qtd. in
Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon, 1971.
464
Subscribers included...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Fenwick
This epistolary novel, set mainly in a castle with secret passages connecting to a monastic ruin , deals with strictly contemporary issues of power and independence. It reflects the influence of EF 's friend Wollstonecraft
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Johnson
Inspired by the use of stories in family education by Richardson 's Pamela, JJ wrote, printed and bound for her daughter and eldest son A very pretty story to tell Children when they are about...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Thicknesse
Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone has been added to the...
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 Eliza Haywood
Working on a perhaps fifteen-year-old text, Haywood made only slight revisions, many of them matters of tone and sensibility, as when Cupid, once the ensnaring God becomes the ensnaring deity. Her change of old-style...
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 ClarissaWomens Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 221-45.
222-3
Intertextuality and Influence Tabitha Tenney
With Charlotte Lennox 's The Female Quixote as starting-point, this story follows a novel-reading heroine whose response to events and people in actual life is distorted by what she reads. It seems quite likely that...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Russell Mitford
Its hero, she said, was as virtuous and as fortunate as [Richardson 's] Sir Charles Grandison.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 358
Intertextuality and Influence Sheila Kaye-Smith
She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George .
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
79
This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...
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, 1794, 3 vols.
1: 7-8
Leisure and Society Mary Martha Sherwood
Her new religion, rigorous as it was, did not forbid fiction. Books were at a premium in India, and MMS was delighted at encountering Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe and Richardson . A new book, or...

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