Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales
and his mistress Lady Jersey
downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox
, apostrophised as one of the great and... |
| Literary responses | Françoise de Graffigny | The novel's combination of originality and popularity at once provoked debate. Like Samuel Richardson
(who began publishing Clarissa in the year of Lettres d'une Péruvienne), FGreceived numerous letters from readers who begged her... |
| Textual Production | Anne Grant | The future AG
addressed to Harriet Reid
a letter written to the moment in the Richardsonian
style, bit by bit throughout the day. |
| Textual Features | Anne Grant | AG
is a conscious artist as a letter-writer, playing with the influence not only of Richardson
but also, in later years, of Hugh Blair
's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The earliest letters... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | The heroine's name, Clarissa, is presumably a belated tribute to Richardson
. It is hard to gauge the weight of the allusion. Beautiful, dignified, superior, and so forth, Clarissa Dorrington is persecuted by her guardian's... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Griffith | The letters are edited versions of those the couple exchanged in actual life, in which EG
's sense and worth persuaded Richard to marry her. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Griffith | The original letters were immensely popular with readers (among others Sarah Harriet Burney
was a devotee); their authors became famous under their pseudonyms. Not everyone agreed in admiring them, however. Lady Bradshaigh
remarked to Samuel Richardson |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Gunning | This non-epistolary novel is broadly satirical. The protagonist's name, Clarissa, makes ironical reference to Richardson
. The opening pages relate, as prologue, the early married life of her terribly young parents, Sir Frederick and Lady... |
| Literary responses | Anne Halkett | This work is the basis of AH
's reputation. The publication of 1875 provoked some biographical and critical comment, but less than might have been expected. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, p. v - xxi. xix |
| Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant
and her father a Catholic
. They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | EH
was early in the field of adverse comment on Samuel Richardson
's Pamela, with a burlesque fiction, Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 353-60 Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlii. xli |
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