Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books.
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Publishing | Anna Williams | AW
's Verses to Mr. Richardson
, on his Publication of Sir Charles Grandison appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine. Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books. 28-9 |
Publishing | Anna Williams | She wanted to have Richardson
's opinion, as a leading London printer, as to whether a scientific dictionary might be profitable in this age of dictionaries. She had been meditat[ing] her scheme for a long... |
Publishing | Mary Barber | This month Barber's teenage son Rupert was on duty all day to dispense copies to subscribers, at the painter's house in Covent Garden where he was a student or apprentice. Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 172n13 |
Publishing | Anna Maria Bennett | AMB
advertised as published at Bath, with her name, her Agnes De-Courci, A Domestic Tale, an epistolary novel in the style of Richardson
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 467 |
Publishing | Sarah Chapone | Some of SC
's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office
, in the Bodleian Library
, and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum
. Her surviving letters to John Wesley
are printed... |
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... |
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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | EC
published her scholarly translation of All the Works of Epictetus, by subscription, as a handsome folio printed by Samuel Richardson
. Richardson, Samuel. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin. Editor Sabor, Peter, Cambridge University Press. 726 Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 169 |
Publishing | Sarah Chapone | It was printed by Samuel Richardson
. The British Library
copy is T 1568 (7). The month after publication SC
wrote to Richardson
to express concern that he had identified her as the author: I... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | Correspondence between EC
and Richardson
appeared in print in the Monthly Magazine (ten pages in volume 33) as Original letters of Miss E. Carter and Mr Samuel Richardson Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. |
Publishing | Mary Astell | Astell alleges a specific provocation for it: she had just been reading the duchess's memoirs, a case-study of a bad marriage, in which both sides were to blame. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press. 153 |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
Publishing | Mary Leapor | A second volume of ML
's Poems upon Several Occasions was printed by Richardson
, with a new subscription list. Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press. 27 |
Publishing | Mary Chandler | Samuel Richardson
, in London, did another anonymous printing of MC
's A Description of Bath. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (September 1734): 51 |
Publishing | Mary Chandler | She dedicated it to her doctor brother John
, saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad— Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, pp. 33-49. 36 |
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