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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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 Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
In The Wayward (Weird) Sister the same character is writing a journal which owes its origin to Samuel Richardson , that is to Miss Byron, the indefatigable Miss Byron, and Clementina. Oh, but I shall...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Montagu
EM seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living).
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable.
2: 179
In the dialogues she...
Textual Features Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Her choice of genres came from her reading in French, not English, fiction, though Louisa (one of two survivors from a cycle of tales set at the court of Louis XIV of France) also...
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.
1: 358
Literary responses Margaret Minifie
The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
50 (1780): 168
It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...
Literary responses Elizabeth Meeke
Literary historian Edward Copeland points out that the hero and the Wheelers are opposites in their relation to money, and also that Mrs Wheeler's death (in hospital of injuries received from falling downstairs while drunk)...
Literary responses Charlotte McCarthy
Jerry C. Beasley is fairly scathing about this book in his survey of the decade's fiction. Framing Samuel Richardson 's Pamela as the literary prototype, Beasley describes CMC 's novel as a comparatively plodding tale...
Textual Features Eliza Kirkham Mathews
This novel, an interesting response to Samuel Richardson , is quite unlike any writing by EKM . Another novel by the same hand, Perplexities; or, The Fortunate Elopement, appeared by December 1794.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 618
Publishing Mary Masters
This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies)
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press.
1: 409-10
included Samuel Johnson , Mrs Gardiner of Snow-Hill, Thomas Birch , a John Cockburne who may well have...
Textual Production Mary Masters
Not included in her collection, though it is a form of letter, was a petition to Samuel Richardson , written and signed by MM and Anna Williams in 1753 (probably before August) for delivery by...
Violence Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
It seems that he forced her to revoke the deed, by threats of personal violence. (She was heavily pregnant at the time, and may at first have been willing to seclusion in order to conceal...
Literary responses Anne Marsh
Chorley 's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting...

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