Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Marishall | The first seventeen letters, addressed to a fourteen-year-old ex-pupil, are moralising or even nagging; Marishall hopes their publication will promote the happiness of mankind. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Cowper Madan | Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, pp. 48-66. 62 |
| Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | When Nathalie Sarraute
argued that the novel is a dead form,CM
thought of three examples to prove her wrong: Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
's La Princesse de Clèves, Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This work is flowery and sentimental in style, didactic in aim. In the first letter Colonel Francis Belville, newly returned to Burton Wood (a sweet retreat, in the Wilds of Kent) Mackenzie, Anna Maria. Burton–Wood. In a Series of Letters. W. Sleater, S. Price, T. Walker, J. Beatty, R. Burton, H. Whitestone, P. Byrne, T. Webb, J. Cash. 1: 5 |
| Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library
's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM
) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson
, to emulate Henry Fielding
and Smollett
... |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The 1809 title-page quotes Shakespeare
's The Merchant of Venice. In 1811 this place is taken by lines from Henry VI Part III, in which the future Richard III avows his villainy and... |
| Textual Production | Anne Lister | AL
wrote in her diary a statement echoing Rousseau
: I know my own heart, and understand my fellow man. From this her editor Helena Whitbread
titled the first printed volume of the diary. The... |
| Textual Features | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | CL
won the enduring friendship of Samuel Johnson
and Samuel Richardson
. (With Johnson she quarrelled at least once, and he took pains to heal the breach.) She introduced Giuseppe Baretti
to Johnson, and had... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | CL
's friends Samuel Johnson
and Samuel Richardson
both saw her as a professional writer with a career to fashion: a career which needed her presence in London, heart of the publishing industry. Richardson... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | She had written most of it by November 1751. With Johnson
as mediator, she consulted Richardson
about revisions, denouement, optimum length (she reduced her plan from three volumes to two), and about her choice of... |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Lennox | Arabella is a reading heroine. Brought up on her dead mother's collection of French romances, she has been savouring a universal power over men, which exists only in her imagination. For this reason she scorns... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 9: 145 Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Concluded)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19 , No. 4, pp. 416-35. 422 |
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