Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Frances Sheridan | In London they quickly acquired an influential and highly talented circle of friends, including Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Edward Young
, Frances Brooke
, Sarah Scott
, and Sarah Fielding
. Richardson admired... |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | At about the same age she wrote two sermons, now lost. Eugenia and Adelaide was surreptitiously written, because of her father's dislike of women's scribbling. Frances wrote enough for two volumes, on paper purloined... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | This novel's genesis lay in financial need and the encouragement given to FS
by Samuel Richardson
when he read her early romance. By late 1759 she was working at Sidney Bidulph, without telling her... |
Dedications | Frances Sheridan | This novel was complete in itself; the sequel was not thought of till later. FS
dedicated it to Samuel Richardson
, who had been a strong supporter and who was to die only four months... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | The Editor's Introduction names not only Richardson
, but also John Home
, whose tragedy Douglas, read aloud in the novel's opening pages, reminds Sidney's friend Cecilia of the old story of Sidney's distresses... |
Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | The novel in its first form was hugely successful: it brought FS
instant fame. Johnson
teasingly expressed doubts about her moral right to make your readers suffer so much. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press. xi |
Leisure and Society | Mary Martha Sherwood | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Masterman Skinn | AMS
borrows from Richardson
a masquerade scene and her basic epistolary form, and radically revises a borrowing from him when her heroine stabs a would-be rapist with scissors. But her general tone and her enjoyment... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | SS
had trouble securing a publisher for this novel. Because of this, Samuel Richardsonadvised her to try her Friends by a private Subscription, which turned out a success beyond her Hopes. Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon. 464 |
Textual Features | Susan Smythies | An Advertisement to the Reader likens itself to a bill of fare or menu. SS
launches a defence of novels, specifically novels by women, in notably low-key style. Admitting that she is now guilty of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | SS
's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson
's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though... |
Literary responses | Susan Smythies | |
Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Author summary | Susan Smythies | SS
published three novels during the 1750s, which show her well versed both in the modern novel created by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
, and in an older tradition of satirical and didactic fiction relying... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Smythies | It sounds as if SS
knew or was known to Samuel Richardson
and some members of his circle. He and all his family subscribed to her last novel, and correspondence relating to Smythies passed between... |
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