Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
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Samuel Richardson
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Standard Name: Richardson, Samuel
SR
'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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | SF
's The History of the Countess of Dellwyn was published in an edition of a thousand copies by Andrew Millar
, and printed by Samuel Richardson
. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xl |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Fielding | SF
's important friendship with Samuel Richardson
probably dates from about 1744. In 1750 he included her and Jane Collier
in a list of thirty-six superior women, most of them his friends. Through Richardson she... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | Begun in mockery of Richardson
's Pamela, Joseph Andrews developed into a new kind of novel, the comic epic poem in prose. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxviii |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Webster Foster | Critic Ruth Perry
has noted that The Coquette is a late example of a numerous group: the woman's novel strongly influenced by Richardson
's Clarissa. Perry, Ruth. “Clarissa’s Daughters, or The History of Innocence Betrayed. How Women Writers Rewrote Richardson”. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, pp. 119-41. 124 |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Frankau | JF
loved to read the current books but had no interest in the lives of the authors. Among literature of the past she much admired that of the eighteenth century, and particularly Richardson
's Clarissa... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
had two daughters or adopted daughters, Pamela
(named after Richardson
's fictional heroine) and Hermine. Pamela later married an Irish patriot, becoming Lady Edward Fitzgerald
. The question of her parentage, and indeed her... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville
on the pains of sensibility. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,. Emma. T. Hookham. 1: 66 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | The hero and heroine survive an impossible concatenation of wicked attempts to make them miserable, to arrive at last at perfect (and well-funded) happiness. But the novel has remarkable aspects. In a systematic role-reversal, two... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
| Textual Production | Hannah Glasse | This publication history shows the nature of the unfettered, cut-throat publishing world of the mid eighteenth century. John Exshaw
of Dublin, where in 1762 neither the Eales nor the Glasse work had appeared, had probably... |
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