Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Mary Charlton | The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC
had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Collier | JC
was a lifelong friend of Sarah Fielding
and her brother Henry
(who famously mentioned in a book inscription her understanding more than Female, mixed with virtues almost more than human), Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 14 |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | It vividly reflects the liveliness and originality of JC
's mind, her interest in books (from the classics and the Bible to very recent publications), education, women's issues, family life, and in moral interpretation of... |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but... |
Literary responses | Jane Collier | The book's authorship is generally accepted, although Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
has written that JC
produced it evidently with some assistance from Fielding
. Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissa’s Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of a Young Lady</span>”;. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, pp. 45-67. 64n14 |
Textual Production | Mary Collyer | Marivaux' full title, La vie de Marianne; ou, Les aventures de Madame la Comtesse de*****, suggests a story from actual life. MC
wrote most of her version before 1741 (very soon after the French... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Collyer | The protagonist's name had been used by both Richardson
(in Clarissa) and Henry Fielding
(in Tom Jones) as a kind of generic appellation for a specific maid or young woman of the servant... |
Cultural formation | Ann Cook | AC
seems to remind her reader that she has risen socially through her own efforts when she calls her position as a married inn-keeper a middling state. Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. White. 206 Henry Fielding
, for instance, presents some... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond, a young man seeking a role-model, turns at first to Fielding
's Tom Jones, but later and more laudably to Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison. |
Textual Production | George Eliot | In December 1870 she began writing Miss Brooke, a narrative which became part of Middlemarch as the history of its heroine. Not long after this she thought of combining this story of a daughter... |
Education | U. A. Fanthorpe | Here, she said later, she came to life under the influence of her tutor, Dorothy Bednarowska
, who taught me to read on the nuance and complexity of Chaucer
's Troilus and Criseyde. This... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with... |
Literary Setting | Sarah Fielding | The form is epistolary: not an exchange of letters but a single, retrospective letter in which the now older Ophelia looks back. The heroine, brought up in isolation in Wales by an aunt who has... |
Residence | Sarah Fielding | SF
lived with and kept house for her brother Henry
in Old Boswell Court, London, from the time of his first wife's death until his second marriage. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne. xi |
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