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.
Stipple engraving of Samuel Richardson, used by Anna Letitia Barbauld in her edition of Richardson's correspondence. He is standing with his right hand tucked into his jacket and a book in his left hand; in the related painting by Joseph Highmore, Richardson holds a paper instead of a book.

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Textual Production Sarah Fielding
She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz . It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxix
which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...
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 Catherine Talbot
CT was one of those whose criticisms and suggestions helped to shape the final form of Richardson 's final novel, Sir Charles Grandison.
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, 1973.
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Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.
The novel is available...
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
In 2004 SD adapted at least two works for radio. She compressed Samuel Richardson 's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded into a two-part radio play with one hour per episode. She based The Long Wait...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
Notable among MH 's large fictional output are didactic stories like Johnny Derbyshire, a Country Quaker (written jointly with her husband). She and Elizabeth Gaskell swapped ghost stories by letter, but MH would not encourage...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
In 1747 Samuel Richardson printed in the first instalment of his novel Clarissa an Ode to Wisdom which was actually by EC , though he later said he did not at this time know its...
Textual Production Helena Wells
She published this with Longman , signing her preface Helena Wells Whitford, though the title-page says only by the Author of the Step-Mother. Subscribers included Joanna Baillie and Anne Hunter . The title-page...
Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels was posthumously published, with a preface which may be by Samuel Richardson .
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
8: 416
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
Anna Letitia Barbauld first revealed that EC wrote five paragraphs (regarded as authoritative) in a conversational debate among characters in Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison on Man's usurpation, and woman's natural independency.
Richardson, Samuel. Sir Charles Grandison. Editor Harris, Jocelyn, Worlds Classics, Oxford University Press, 1986.
3: 242 and n
Textual Production Jane Collier
JC wrote to Samuel Richardson to explain why he ought not to make a change he wished to in Sarah Fielding 's The Governess.
Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press, 1993.
xxix-xxx
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 Jane Collier
JC sent Richardson two commentaries on Clarissa, the first dealing with the vexed issue of pornography in the fire scene.
Keymer, Tom. “Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in ClarissaNew Essays on Samuel Richardson, edited by Albert J. Rivero, Macmillan; St Martins Press, 1996, pp. 141-61.
149, 151-2, 154
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
Noble published a posthumous edition of The Agreeable Caledonian (1728) with EH 's own revisions, entitled Clementina (perhaps implying a relationship to Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison).
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
25 (1768): 59
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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