Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 4, pp. 416-35. 422 |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
argues that this text, though designed to ride the wave of the new silver-fork novel, draws its influences from an earlier generation: Frances Burney
, Susan Ferrier
, and Richardson
's Sir Charles... |
| Literary responses | Françoise de Graffigny | The novel's combination of originality and popularity at once provoked debate. Like Samuel Richardson
(who began publishing Clarissa in the year of Lettres d'une Péruvienne), FGreceived numerous letters from readers who begged her... |
| 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 | 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 |
| Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | The novel in its first form was hugely successful: it brought FS
instant fame. Johnson
teasingly expressed doubts about her moral right to make your readers suffer so much. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press. xi |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of... |
| Literary responses | May Laffan | Overlooking the weak management of the plot because the main aim of the author is a social picture, the Athenæum called Christy Carew a truthful account of Dublin society told in such a way that... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | SC
's friend and printer Richardson
saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by... |
| Literary responses | Mary Lamb | In reading The Father's Wedding-day, Walter Savage Landor
said he pressed my temples with both hands, and tears ran down to my elbows.. He read this story over and over again, Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 244 |
| Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | Samuel Richardson
respected The Cry as a new Species of Writing, sent copies to two friends (Sophia Wescomb
and Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh
), and wanted it to go into a second edition— Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 13 |
| Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a sad and cautionary idyll, and yet [a]ltogether a witty lark. Charques, Richard Denis. “Mayfair Comedy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2235, p. 581. 581 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Griffith | The original letters were immensely popular with readers (among others Sarah Harriet Burney
was a devotee); their authors became famous under their pseudonyms. Not everyone agreed in admiring them, however. Lady Bradshaigh
remarked to Samuel Richardson |
| 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 |
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