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Samuel Richardson
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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Susan Smythies | |
| Literary responses | Anne Halkett | This work is the basis of AH
's reputation. The publication of 1875 provoked some biographical and critical comment, but less than might have been expected. |
| Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Chorley
's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting... |
| Literary responses | Mary Chandler | Her poem played its part in the establishment of Bath as a resort which was respected and fashionable, on both medical and cultural grounds. When James Leake
published a revised edition of A Tour of... |
| Literary responses | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | Bibliographer Melvin D. Palmer
assigns to these an important place in the history of French-English prose fiction in the formative years that saw the rise of the modern novel. Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d’Aulnoy in England”. Comparative Literature, Vol. 27 , pp. 237-53. 237 |
| Literary responses | Jane West | When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 68 (1789): 495 |
| Literary responses | Sarah Scott | Samuel Richardson
(given an advance copy by the publisher) reported the verdict of his wife
and daughters, and the writer Jane Collier
(a friend particularly of his daughter Anne
), that the book was lacking... |
| Literary responses | Frances Brooke | Highly positive reviews included one from Voltaire
in France suggesting that this was the finest epistolary novel to appear in English during the decade or so since the last work of Richardson
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Frances Brooke | She thought it had been too long, with too little plot, and that the subscription method had not been to its benefit. Critic Juliet McMaster
believes that Jane Austen
had Emily Montague in mind in... |
| 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. 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 |
| 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 |
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