Feminist Companion Archive.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Rebecca Littleton is not in fact born into the servant class, nor does she experience it for long. At the outset she is sixteen, well educated, and exceptionally beautiful, the youngest and only surviving child... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Frankau | JF
loved to read the current books but had no interest in the lives of the authors. Among literature of the past she much admired that of the eighteenth century, and particularly Richardson
's Clarissa... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke
's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
). Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 3: 95 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | Critics have debated how far the abbé Prevost
and Samuel Richardson
(in his first two novels) were influenced by The Illustrious French Lovers. Shelly Charles
accepts that PA
's heroine Angélique was a model... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Fenwick | This epistolary novel, set mainly in a castle with secret passages connecting to a monastic ruin , deals with strictly contemporary issues of power and independence. It reflects the influence of EF
's friend Wollstonecraft |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | The opening words leave no doubt that this is in a different style from EP
's domestic novels: No sooner had the struggling soul escaped from the clay-cold body of Count Renaud, than his eldest... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | The hero and heroine survive an impossible concatenation of wicked attempts to make them miserable, to arrive at last at perfect (and well-funded) happiness. But the novel has remarkable aspects. In a systematic role-reversal, two... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | The novel opens, after a bow in the direction of the huge extent of the Ardenne Forest in the time of the Romans, with its offering at the time of the novel, as shelter for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | Georgina, heroine of this novel, seems to contradict the (comparatively) egalitarian message of the previous one, since her eventual marriage choice is negatively directed by the need for people to marry within their rank. She... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | This novel's genesis lay in financial need and the encouragement given to FS
by Samuel Richardson
when he read her early romance. By late 1759 she was working at Sidney Bidulph, without telling her... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Collyer | MC
's letter-writing heroine is a young Londoner who ecstatically discovers and settles in the country. The plot concerns the love between her and the sentimental Lucius Manly, described as a poor Shaftesburean
moralist... |
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