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
Friends, Associates Susan Smythies
It sounds as if SS knew or was known to Samuel Richardson and some members of his circle. He and all his family subscribed to her last novel, and correspondence relating to Smythies passed between...
Intertextuality and Influence Susan Smythies
The title-page bears a quotation from Prior 's verse romance Henry and Emma, but SS lays explicit claim, too, to a canonical tradition of prose fiction. The book begins with a series of tales...
Intertextuality and Influence Susan Smythies
SS had trouble securing a publisher for this novel. Because of this, Samuel Richardsonadvised her to try her Friends by a private Subscription, which turned out a success beyond her Hopes.
Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon.
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Subscribers included...
Textual Features Susan Smythies
An Advertisement to the Reader likens itself to a bill of fare or menu. SS launches a defence of novels, specifically novels by women, in notably low-key style. Admitting that she is now guilty of...
Intertextuality and Influence Susan Smythies
SS 's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson 's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though...
Literary responses Susan Smythies
The Critical Review noted that SS was imitating Richardson in this novel (as she had imitated Fielding in her last). In The Brothers it found all the machinery of a modern novel, without the overall...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Masterman Skinn
AMS borrows from Richardson a masquerade scene and her basic epistolary form, and radically revises a borrowing from him when her heroine stabs a would-be rapist with scissors. But her general tone and her enjoyment...
Leisure and Society Mary Martha Sherwood
Her new religion, rigorous as it was, did not forbid fiction. Books were at a premium in India, and MMS was delighted at encountering Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe and Richardson . A new book, or...
Textual Production Frances Sheridan
At about the same age she wrote two sermons, now lost. Eugenia and Adelaide was surreptitiously written, because of her father's dislike of women's scribbling. Frances wrote enough for two volumes, on paper purloined...
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...
Dedications Frances Sheridan
This novel was complete in itself; the sequel was not thought of till later. FS dedicated it to Samuel Richardson , who had been a strong supporter and who was to die only four months...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sheridan
The Editor's Introduction names not only Richardson , but also John Home , whose tragedy Douglas, read aloud in the novel's opening pages, reminds Sidney's friend Cecilia of the old story of Sidney's distresses...
Literary responses Frances Sheridan
The novel in its first form was hugely successful: it brought FS instant fame. Johnson teasingly expressed doubts about her moral right to make your readers suffer so much.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
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Boswell praised the Christian morality...
Publishing Frances Sheridan
Publisher Robert Dodsley rejected FS 's romance Eugenia and Adelaide, which had been submitted to him through the good offices of Samuel Richardson .
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
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Friends, Associates Frances Sheridan
In London they quickly acquired an influential and highly talented circle of friends, including Samuel Johnson , Samuel Richardson , Edward Young , Frances Brooke , Sarah Scott , and Sarah Fielding . Richardson admired...

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