Elizabeth Lady Echlin

Standard Name: Echlin, Elizabeth,,, Lady

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Samuel Richardson	His close friends, too, included a remarkable number of writing women: among others Sarah Fielding , sister of his literary arch-rival, Jane Collier , Hester Mulso (later Chapone) , Susanna Highmore (later Duncombe) , and...
Friends, Associates	Mary Latter	An unnamed correspondent whom Latter mentions in her first-published volume (an unmarried woman or girl) was a friend of Lady Echlin (in turn the friend of and commentator on Samuel Richardson ). Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock, 1759. 65 Late in...
Literary responses	Samuel Richardson	With Clarissa's rape and death, Richardson's circle became more critical than they had been all along, and objections from them and other readers began flowing thick and fast. The whole novel was discussed in print...
Textual Production	Sarah Fielding	This work, no longer attributed to SF 's single authorship, was printed, as several of hers were, by Samuel Richardson . But letters written about it by Lady Barbara Montagu (friend and partner of the...

Timeline

Probably 10 July 1748

Dorothea, Lady Bradshaigh , wrote her first letter to Samuel Richardson , signing herself Belfour.

Fulton, Gordon D., and Janine Barchas, editors. The Annotations in Lady Bradshaigh’s Copy of Clarissa. University of Victoria, 1998.

37n11, 103, 104

February 1755

Samuel Richardson read the alternative ending to his novel Clarissa that Lady Echlin (sister of Lady Bradshaigh ) had been spurred to write by her revulsion at Clarissa's rape and unmerited death.

Echlin, Elizabeth, Lady. An Alternative Ending to Richardson’s Clarissa. Editor Daphinoff, Dimiter, Francke Verlag, 1982.

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