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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 descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Jane Johnson | JJ
interrupted a letter of tentative moral advice to her friend Mrs Brompton, to cast her thoughts into fiction: The History of Miss Clarissa of Buckinghamshire, who is descended from Richardson
's Clarissa, but... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Johnson | Inspired by the use of stories in family education by Richardson
's Pamela, JJ
wrote, printed and bound for her daughter and eldest son A very pretty story to tell Children when they are about... |
| Textual Features | Jane Johnson | She writes of women's virtues as domestic ones, and the family as the proper province for private women to shine in. Whyman likens her letters, in their aim and scope, to those of Richardson
... |
| Textual Production | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
edited for the Regent Library a selection from the works of Samuel Richardson
. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 15 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George
. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 79 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Latter | An unnamed correspondent whom Latter mentions in her first-published volume (an unmarried woman or girl) was a friend of Lady Echlin
(in turn the friend of and commentator on Samuel Richardson
). Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock. 65 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
| Textual Features | Sophia Lee | The plot in some ways echoes that of Richardson
's Pamela. Cecilia Rivers, orphan daughter of a poor and saintly clergyman, comes down in the world and has to earn her living as a... |
| 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... |
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