Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company.
Samuel Richardson
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Standard Name: Richardson, Samuel
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's three epistolary novels, published between 1740 and 1753, exerted an influence on women's writing which was probably stronger than that of any other novelist, male or female, of the century. He also facilitated women's literary careers in his capacity as member of the publishing trade, and published a letter-writing manual and a advice-book for printers' apprentices.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Bonhote | In the dedication EB
writes of her works as her children. Emelia Fitzroy (whose mother is dead and father in the army) stays in London with her friend Lavinia Seyton, and is subsequently forced to... |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | Whereas Samuel Richardson
had criticised William Whitehead
's The Roman Father, saying that it validated personal feeling at the expense of patriotism, the author of the pamphlet takes issue with Richardson
and defends Whitehead's... |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
| Textual Features | Jane Porter | JP
opens her story in early 1792, on the eve of Poland's unsuccessful bid for independence in the Kościuszko
Uprising, and continues it in London, which was beginning to function as a haven... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
| Reception | Mary Davys | One contemporary reader recorded in a couplet the conviction that Familiar Letters ends with the two correspondents heading for marriage. Recent readers (as represented by editor Martha Bowden
and several classes of students) are more... |
| Reception | Susanna Haswell Rowson | She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. |
| Reception | Joanna Baillie | Charles Landseer
(brother of Sir Edwin Landseer
) exhibited at the Royal Academy
a painting from JB
's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 511 |
| Reception | Anna Seward | |
| Reception | Teresia Constantia Phillips | An outcry greeted the publication, and pamphlets of attack and defence followed. The Gentleman's Magazine printed two anonymous epistles addresssed to TCP
in August. After the second volume appeared, Henry Muilman
made an attempt to... |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | EH
's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally... |
| Publishing | Mary Astell | Astell alleges a specific provocation for it: she had just been reading the duchess's memoirs, a case-study of a bad marriage, in which both sides were to blame. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press. 153 |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
| Publishing | Mary Leapor | A second volume of ML
's Poems upon Several Occasions was printed by Richardson
, with a new subscription list. Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press. 27 |
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