It was published anonymously. The French original was current in England at this time, since the Duchess of Somerset
(patron and poet, formerly Lady Hertford) read and enjoyed it in the year before Scott's translation...
Publishing
Frances Sheridan
Publisher Robert Dodsley
rejected FS
's romance Eugenia and Adelaide, which had been submitted to him through the good offices of Samuel Richardson
.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Susanna Watts
In fact the Chinese connection was non-existent; SW
was versifying and adapting Robert Dodsley
's immensely popular The Oeconomy of Human Life, and bringing out its already-existent orientalism. Her Introduction exemplifies the tone of...