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.

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Textual Production Anna Seward
In a letter to Humphry Repton of February 1786 AS made it clear that she expected cultivated people to disapprove of novels in general, though she admitted that Richardson 's Clarissa was in a different...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Seward
AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
Reception Anna Seward
Publication of a Beauties of was an accolade which put AS on a par with, for instance, Johnson or Richardson .
Textual Production Sarah Scott
SS and Lady Barbara Montagu published through Samuel Richardson a set of educational cards for teaching history and geography.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
xxii-xxiii, xliv
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...
Literary responses Sarah Scott
Samuel Richardson (given an advance copy by the publisher) reported the verdict of his wife and daughters, and the writer Jane Collier (a friend particularly of his daughter Anne ), that the book was lacking...
Textual Production Sarah Scott
The Montagu Papers at the Huntington Library contain 367 of SS 's letters to her sister, and about twice that many from Elizabeth to her. Nicole Pohl 's edition of Scott's letters (those which survived...
Education Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson ) a topic of conversation,
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.
1: 118
and that (in her own judgement) Fielding and Smollett , and various...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Haswell Rowson
This novel is a tale of seduction, repentance, and forgiveness in the city of New York. Richardson 's Clarissa is a formative influence, but Rowson softens the story of Clarissa by allowing Charlotte's father...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Haswell Rowson
Rebecca Littleton is not in fact born into the servant class, nor does she experience it for long. At the outset she is sixteen, well educated, and exceptionally beautiful, the youngest and only surviving child...
Reception Susanna Haswell Rowson
She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90.
Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company.
Before the recent revival of interest in women's writing, however, she was remembered almost exclusively as the author of Charlotte Temple, that is...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
At her death ESR emulated the characters in her own Friendship in Death (and anticipated Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa) by leaving letters to her friends for posthumous delivery.
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR by George Vertue , which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
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Intertextuality and Influence Regina Maria Roche
The novel, which quotes Isaac Watts on its title-page and is again set in Ireland, adds gothic touches to a domestic story. While shut up in a country house the heroine reads Richardson 's Clarissa.
Textual Features Frances Reynolds
FR pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men.
Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300.
2: 252
She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...

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