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Textual Production | Jane Collier | JC
wrote to Samuel Richardson
to explain why he ought not to make a change he wished to in Sarah Fielding
's The Governess. Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press. xxix-xxx |
Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe. The novel is available... |
Textual Production | Jane Collier | JC
sent Richardson
two commentaries on Clarissa, the first dealing with the vexed issue of pornography in the fire scene. Keymer, Tom. “Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Clarissa</span>”;. New Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 141-61. 149, 151-2, 154 |
Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
's A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels was posthumously published, with a preface which may be by Samuel Richardson
. London Magazine. C. Ackers. 8: 416 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Fenton | Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold. 1-2 |
Textual Features | Eliza Parsons | The heroine is abandoned as a two-year-old on a beach in northern Ireland by a mysterious traveller, together with fine linen marked with an L. and an unexplained number. The locals are Nelly and Dermont... |
Textual Features | Sophia Lee | The plot in some ways echoes that of Richardson
's Pamela. Cecilia Rivers, orphan daughter of a poor and saintly clergyman, comes down in the world and has to earn her living as a... |
Textual Features | Sarah Scott | The French heroine tells her own life-story. Her mother dies at her birth. Among various persecutions, she is abducted and imprisoned in one of those rooms, not uncommonly found in old castles, where the owner... |
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... |
Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | CT
's letters often convey her literary opinions, discussing writing by, for instance, Marie de Sévigné
, Richardson
, Henry Fielding
and Samuel Johnson
. She also writes of the details of her daily life... |
Textual Features | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | This novel, an interesting response to Samuel Richardson
, is quite unlike any writing by EKM
. Another novel by the same hand, Perplexities; or, The Fortunate Elopement, appeared by December 1794. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 618 |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
Textual Features | Charlotte Lennox | Arabella is a reading heroine. Brought up on her dead mother's collection of French romances, she has been savouring a universal power over men, which exists only in her imagination. For this reason she scorns... |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | She writes of women's virtues as domestic ones, and the family as the proper province for private women to shine in. Whyman likens her letters, in their aim and scope, to those of Richardson
... |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's... |
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