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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Elizabeth Carter
EC published her scholarly translation of All the Works of Epictetus, by subscription, as a handsome folio printed by Samuel Richardson .
Richardson, Samuel. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin. Editor Sabor, Peter, Cambridge University Press.
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Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Publishing Elizabeth Carter
Correspondence between EC and Richardson appeared in print in the Monthly Magazine (ten pages in volume 33) as Original letters of Miss E. Carter and Mr Samuel Richardson
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Carter
EC associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson , Samuel Richardson , Thomas Birch , Moses Browne , Richard Savage , William and John Duncombe
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
In 1747 Samuel Richardson printed in the first instalment of his novel Clarissa an Ode to Wisdom which was actually by EC , though he later said he did not at this time know its...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
Anna Letitia Barbauld first revealed that EC wrote five paragraphs (regarded as authoritative) in a conversational debate among characters in Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison on Man's usurpation, and woman's natural independency.
Richardson, Samuel. Sir Charles Grandison. Editor Harris, Jocelyn, Oxford University Press.
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Textual Features Elizabeth Carter
As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary.
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6.
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In her mature correspondence with Elizabeth Montagu both writers discuss their...
Publishing Mary Chandler
Samuel Richardson , in London, did another anonymous printing of MC 's A Description of Bath.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(September 1734): 51
Publishing Mary Chandler
She dedicated it to her doctor brother John , saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad—
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, pp. 33-49.
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that is, to appear in print before the public. She said it was...
Literary responses Mary Chandler
Her poem played its part in the establishment of Bath as a resort which was respected and fashionable, on both medical and cultural grounds. When James Leake published a revised edition of A Tour of...
Friends, Associates Hester Mulso Chapone
Hester Mulso became a member of Samuel Richardson 's circle (as depicted in the well-known drawing by Susanna Highmore ), and engaged with him in lively debate on the position, status, and duties of unmarried...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
As a member of the Richardson circle, his informal core committee of collaborators on his second and third novels, Hester Mulso had some influence on the shaping of Clarissa, both through face-to-face conversation and...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC 's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney
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...
Friends, Associates Sarah Chapone
SC was a great networker. Having met George Ballard , a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob and to...
Publishing Sarah Chapone
Some of SC 's letters remain at Gloucestershire Record Office , in the Bodleian Library , and among Richardson's correspondence in the Victoria and Albert Museum . Her surviving letters to John Wesley are printed...

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