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...
Textual Production
Sarah Scott
The Montagu Papers at the Huntington Library
contain 367 of SS
's letters to her sister, and about twice that many from Elizabeth to her. Nicole Pohl
's edition of Scott's letters (those which survived...
Friends, Associates
Susan Smythies
It sounds as if SS
knew or was known to Samuel Richardson
and some members of his circle. He and all his family subscribed to her last novel, and correspondence relating to Smythies passed between...
Textual Features
Sarah Trimmer
This use of instruction cards was innovative, at least in England. ST
may or may not have known of the cards issued by Sarah Scott
and Lady Barbara Montagu
in April 1759 (which failed as...
