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Intertextuality and Influence | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Though the Quarterly Review announced the novel in April, AOK
signed her statement To the Public (written at Chichester in Sussex) in May. She includes in her preliminary pages a list of fictional correspondents... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | The first anecdote about the girls is sentimental in tone. The sweet and lovely Miss Menil reforms the eleven-year-old malicious telltale Miss Cummings by taking her part when she has done wrong. Miss Cummings, filled... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | In The Wayward (Weird) Sister the same character is writing a journal which owes its origin to Samuel Richardson
, that is to Miss Byron, the indefatigable Miss Byron, and Clementina. Oh, but I shall... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton
to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable. 2: 179 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her choice of genres came from her reading in French, not English, fiction, though Louisa (one of two survivors from a cycle of tales set at the court of Louis XIV
of France) also... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Russell Mitford | Its hero, she said, was as virtuous and as fortunate as [Richardson
's] Sir Charles Grandison. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 358 |
Literary responses | Margaret Minifie | The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 50 (1780): 168 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Meeke | Literary historian Edward Copeland
points out that the hero and the Wheelers are opposites in their relation to money, and also that Mrs Wheeler's death (in hospital of injuries received from falling downstairs while drunk)... |
Literary responses | Charlotte McCarthy | Jerry C. Beasley
is fairly scathing about this book in his survey of the decade's fiction. Framing Samuel Richardson
's Pamela as the literary prototype, Beasley describes CMC
's novel as a comparatively plodding tale... |
Textual Features | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | This novel, an interesting response to Samuel Richardson
, is quite unlike any writing by EKM
. Another novel by the same hand, Perplexities; or, The Fortunate Elopement, appeared by December 1794. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 618 |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
Textual Production | Mary Masters | Not included in her collection, though it is a form of letter, was a petition to Samuel Richardson
, written and signed by MM
and Anna Williams
in 1753 (probably before August) for delivery by... |
Violence | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | It seems that he forced her to revoke the deed, by threats of personal violence. (She was heavily pregnant at the time, and may at first have been willing to seclusion in order to conceal... |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Chorley
's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting... |
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