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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Susan Smythies | In this third-person narrative (again well supplied with subsidiary, episodic stories) Lucy is a well-bred ideal orphan, who is discovered by Mrs Goodall, a benevolent widow of fifty-nine, living with the vulgar and unpleasant Searls... |
| Publishing | Susan Smythies | SS
had trouble securing a publisher for this novel. Because of this, Samuel Richardsonadvised her to try her Friends by a private Subscription, which turned out a success beyond her Hopes. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mariana Starke | Her mother, born Mary Hughes
, was the daughter of a London merchant, whose letters show her to have been a competent, amusing woman, interested in literature and the world. Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere. |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS
) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in... |
| Literary Setting | Ann Thicknesse | An introduction explains that this book, although called a novel, will not deal in pathetic tales of love, marvellous prodigies, or even . . . elegant flights of fancy, but only plain simple facts... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anna Williams | David Garrick
put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre
for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW
. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 1: 124 and n3 |
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