Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | This little book (with no notes or index) opens on an echo of Jenkins's fuller work on Austen, with a tribute to the mid eighteenth century as a time of brilliant flowering in the English... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter
she mulled over religious and literary questions... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Williams | Williams voices admiration for each of Richardson
's three novels, and ingeniously defends him against a recurrent criticism: Proceed to teach, thy labours ne'er can tire, / Thou still must write, and we must still... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), |
| 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Angela Thirkell | The first house is that of her Burne-Jonesgrandparents
: The Grange, North End Lane, Fulham. Thirkell, Angela. Three Houses. Robin Clark. 11-14 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Cowper Madan | Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, pp. 48-66. 62 |
| Travel | Jane Collier | She mentions her habit of walking back and forth between London and North End (now part of Fulham), where Richardson
had his suburban home. Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 8-9 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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