Robert Adams Day

Standard Name: Day, Robert Adams

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Literary responses	Mary Davys	Until the later twentieth century MD had far less than her due in critical investigations of the rise of the novel, though Robert Adams Day praised one of her works in 1966. Recently J. A...
Publishing	Catharine Trotter	The ascription has been subject to some question, since the formerly accepted birthdate for CT made her only fourteen at the time; the date established by more recent scholarship makes her approaching twenty. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. The volume,...
Reception	Mary Davys	One contemporary reader recorded in a couplet the conviction that Familiar Letters ends with the two correspondents heading for marriage. Recent readers (as represented by editor Martha Bowden and several classes of students) are more...
Textual Features	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to...
Textual Production	Catharine Trotter	Critic Robert Adams Day ably summarised the virtues of this tale in 1969, well ahead of the explosion of interest in early women's writing. He pointed out the novelty of the middle-class heroine, chaste but...

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Day, Robert Adams, and Catharine Trotter. “Introduction”. Olinda’s Adventures, William Clark Library, 1969, p. i - viii.

Trotter, Catharine. Olinda’s Adventures. Editor Day, Robert Adams, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1969.

Day, Robert Adams. Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson. University of Michigan Press, 1966, http://U of A HS.