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 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...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
FB apologised to Thomas Cadell about her delay (caused by ill-health) in completing a life of Samuel Richardson .Cadell, Jr
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix.
xlix
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
187, 234n1
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
CL 's friends Samuel Johnson and Samuel Richardson both saw her as a professional writer with a career to fashion: a career which needed her presence in London, heart of the publishing industry. Richardson...
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
Critic Robert Adams Day ably summarised the virtues of this tale in 1969, well ahead of the explosion of interest in early women's writing. He pointed out the novelty of the middle-class heroine, chaste but...
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...
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 Jane Collier
JC published, anonymously, An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, printed by Samuel Richardson .
Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press, 1993.
xxxiii
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.
146
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, 2003.
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, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
xli
Textual Production Jane Johnson
JJ interrupted a letter of tentative moral advice to her friend Mrs Brompton, to cast her thoughts into fiction: The History of Miss Clarissa of Buckinghamshire, who is descended from Richardson 's Clarissa, but...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
Susanna Duncombe offered FB permission to use (for her life of Richardson ) Duncombe's now well-known sketch of him reading aloud.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
188
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
She had written most of it by November 1751. With Johnson as mediator, she consulted Richardson about revisions, denouement, optimum length (she reduced her plan from three volumes to two), and about her choice of...
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...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
211-12, 213
Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003.
88
The work's authorship had been implied on later works by...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
FB 's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Samuel Richardson was published in the Universal Magazine.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
188-9
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
276
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the...

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