Thirkell, Angela. Three Houses. Robin Clark.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Susan Smythies | |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Talbot | Six months later CT
was staying with the duchess on an extended visit. She was also a good friend of Elizabeth Montagu
(of whose closeness to Carter she was sometimes jealous); of Montagu's friends George Lyttelton |
| 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 Features | Catherine Talbot | CT
's letters often convey her literary opinions, discussing writing by, for instance, Marie de Sévigné
, Richardson
, Henry Fielding
and Samuel Johnson
. She also writes of the details of her daily life... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Teft | She praises Pope
, reproves Richardson
for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers... |
| Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Like a Daniel Defoe
or Samuel Richardson
, she professes to be only the editor of her protagonist's own text. |
| Literary Setting | Emma Tennant | Her heroine, based on herself aged fifteen onwards, is a red-haired debutante from Scotland, progressing from a seedy finishing school to being launched on the London season, an environment full of seducers and conmen where... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | With Charlotte Lennox
's The Female Quixote as starting-point, this story follows a novel-reading heroine whose response to events and people in actual life is distorted by what she reads. It seems quite likely that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | Dorcasina's next suitor, Patrick O'Connor, who appears after the lapse of a dozen years, is after her money. He is Irish, aged twenty-two, the natural son of a steward, a gamester and former highwayman who... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | Neither the Cumberland episode, nor her father's death, nor her own serious illness brought on by grief, can change Dorcasina. She next fancies that a new servant, John Brown, is a lover in disguise. (The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone
has been added to the... |
| Travel | Angela Thirkell | As well as her happy Sundays at her Burne-Jones grandparents' home, The Grange, North End Lane, Fulham (once Samuel Richardson
's house), the young Angela Mackail spent many holidays staying with them at the small... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Angela Thirkell | The first house is that of her Burne-Jonesgrandparents
: The Grange, North End Lane, Fulham. |
| Textual Features | Sue Townsend | Townsend expresses sympathy over what she assumes to have been the pain and humiliation caused to Sheridan and other women writers by compulsory anonymity. Townsend, Sue, and Frances Sheridan. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Pandora Press, p. ix - xi. ix |
| 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... |
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