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.

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Textual Production Sarah Fielding
SF 's The History of the Countess of Dellwyn was published in an edition of a thousand copies by Andrew Millar , and printed by Samuel Richardson .
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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Friends, Associates Sarah Fielding
SF 's important friendship with Samuel Richardson probably dates from about 1744. In 1750 he included her and Jane Collier in a list of thirty-six superior women, most of them his friends. Through Richardson she...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
Begun in mockery of Richardson 's Pamela, Joseph Andrews developed into a new kind of novel, the comic epic poem in prose.
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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Textual Features Sarah Fielding
David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson , which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
She described herself as the Author of David Simple on the title-page of this and of all her subsequent fictional works. She did not put her name on a title-page until her last book. This...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz . It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education
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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which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
Textual Features Sarah Fielding
Whereas Samuel Richardson had criticised William Whitehead 's The Roman Father, saying that it validated personal feeling at the expense of patriotism, the author of the pamphlet takes issue with Richardson and defends Whitehead's...
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.
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Eliza's first difficulty is the same as Clarissa's...
Friends, Associates Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
SFG had two daughters or adopted daughters, Pamela (named after Richardson 's fictional heroine) and Hermine. Pamela later married an Irish patriot, becoming Lady Edward Fitzgerald . The question of her parentage, and indeed her...
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.
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She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...
Intertextuality and Influence Phebe Gibbes
The hero and heroine survive an impossible concatenation of wicked attempts to make them miserable, to arrive at last at perfect (and well-funded) happiness. But the novel has remarkable aspects. In a systematic role-reversal, two...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Gilding
Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio...
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...

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