This pseudonym was one of several names much used by the publisher, Richard Phillips
, for books which have been supposed to be of his own composition. Phillips was a friend and associate of the...
Publishing
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
She wrote it in summer 1805 as a guest at Longford House near Sligo.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
158
In a preface written for a later edition she said that at the time it appeared it was dangerous...
Textual Production
Mariana Starke
Richard Phillips
issued a revised and expanded edition of MS
's Letters from Italy as Travels in Italy. The significant addition was material on France (now accessible again after the peace of Amiens).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 6 (1805): 168
Hertford, Frances Seymour, Countess of, and Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret. Correspondence between Frances, Countess of Hartford and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret. Richard Phillips, 1805, 3 vols.
title-page
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Textual Production
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Early that year, following the death of Richardson's last surviving daughter, Richard Phillips
had acquired an amazing hoard of Richardson letters. Phillips was unpleasant to work for, both bullying and suspicious, but for her editorial...
Travel
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson
was in London for the first time, having travelled there to meet her first English publisher, Richard Phillips
; the sea crossing was horribly rough.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1: 253
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
58, 83
Wealth and Poverty
Susanna Watts
An application to the Royal Literary Fund
was secretly made on SW
's behalf by a relation of Elizabeth Heyrick
(perhaps her mother) and the publisher Richard Phillips
; they got her a grant of...