Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
68 (1789): 495
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Walker | The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eglinton Wallace | Hers is, however, a conservative approach to improving the status of women. She sees female chastity as central not only to women's well-being but also to society, for reasons of property and inheritance and to... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Jane West | When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. |
| Publishing | Anna Williams | AW
's Verses to Mr. Richardson
, on his Publication of Sir Charles Grandison appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine. Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books. 28-9 |
| Publishing | Anna Williams | She wanted to have Richardson
's opinion, as a leading London printer, as to whether a scientific dictionary might be profitable in this age of dictionaries. She had been meditat[ing] her scheme for a long... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Anna Williams | |
| Textual Features | Harriette Wilson | Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 249 |
| Education | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | EPW
says nothing specific about her intellectual development, except that Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison had formed her mind and heart. Her education was clearly a good one that included much reading. |
| Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | During the same year, 1790, Johnson
published Young Grandison. A Series of Letters from Young Persons to Their Friends, MW
's free rendering of a Richardson
-inspired juvenile conduct book by the Dutchwoman Maria Geertruida van de Werken de Cambon |
| Friends, Associates | Mehetabel Wright | Either now or later she met the writer John Duncombe
and painter Joseph Highmore
, as well as the novelist Samuel Richardson
. Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 15-38. 17, 27 |
| Textual Production | Mehetabel Wright | Many of her poems, sent to relations, seem to have been lost in transit. Only a handful have been identified, though there may be more to come. Some which do survive are to be found... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mehetabel Wright | Wedlock, now well-known, is a poem of vituperative denunciation. Another of her poems describes and praises a woman based on Richardson
's Clarissa. Knights, Elspeth. “’Daring to Touch the Hem of her Garment’: Women Reading <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Clarissa</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 221-45. 222-3 |
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