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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Ann Hatton
This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Hays
Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
211-12, 213
Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003.
88
The work's authorship had been implied on later works by...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the...
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...
Publishing Eliza Haywood
EH gave her name on the dedication though not on the title-page. Lady Betty Germain had eloped with and married politician Anthony Henley in February. Before the end of the year he was said to...
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...
Reception Eliza Haywood
EH 's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
Noble published a posthumous edition of The Agreeable Caledonian (1728) with EH 's own revisions, entitled Clementina (perhaps implying a relationship to Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison).
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
297-8
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
25 (1768): 59
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
178
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
EH was early in the field of adverse comment on Samuel Richardson 's Pamela, with a burlesque fiction, Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
353-60
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
xli
Reception Elizabeth Hervey
It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
The Fountain's publisher, Congregationalist minister Joseph Parker , was a family friend. In addition to her publications in this newspaper, JOH was writing letters, other stories, and plays that she mounted at home in...
Textual Features Barbara Hofland
The title-page quotes James Montgomery . The story, set in the seventeenth century, opens as Iwanowna marries Frederic Moldovani on her nineteenth birthday. News of his death closes the first volume; but tragedy is held...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Holford
Woodville/Davenant credits his rescue from dissipation and folly partly to the virtuous Fanny
Holford, Margaret, the elder. Fanny: A Novel: In a Series of Letters. W. Richardson, 1785, 3 vols.
2: 1
and partly to learning the effects of seduction. His emotional education involves a scene which would humanize the heart even...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
Notable among MH 's large fictional output are didactic stories like Johnny Derbyshire, a Country Quaker (written jointly with her husband). She and Elizabeth Gaskell swapped ghost stories by letter, but MH would not encourage...

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