Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
xxii-xxiii, xliv
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anna Seward | In a letter to Humphry Repton
of February 1786 AS
made it clear that she expected cultivated people to disapprove of novels in general, though she admitted that Richardson
's Clarissa was in a different... |
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... |
Reception | Anna Seward | |
Textual Production | Sarah Scott | SS
and Lady Barbara Montagu
published through Samuel Richardson
a set of educational cards for teaching history and geography. Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv. xxii-xxiii, xliv |
Textual Features | Sarah Scott | The French heroine tells her own life-story. Her mother dies at her birth. Among various persecutions, she is abducted and imprisoned in one of those rooms, not uncommonly found in old castles, where the owner... |
Literary responses | Sarah Scott | Samuel Richardson
(given an advance copy by the publisher) reported the verdict of his wife
and daughters, and the writer Jane Collier
(a friend particularly of his daughter Anne
), that the book was lacking... |
Textual Production | Sarah Scott | The Montagu Papers at the Huntington Library
contain 367 of SS
's letters to her sister, and about twice that many from Elizabeth to her. Nicole Pohl
's edition of Scott's letters (those which survived... |
Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson
) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 118 |
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... |
Reception | Susanna Haswell Rowson | She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | This novel is a tale of seduction, repentance, and forgiveness in the city of New York. Richardson
's Clarissa is a formative influence, but Rowson softens the story of Clarissa by allowing Charlotte's father... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | At her death ESR
emulated the characters in her own Friendship in Death (and anticipated Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa) by leaving letters to her friends for posthumous delivery. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR
by George Vertue
, which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 17 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | The novel, which quotes Isaac Watts
on its title-page and is again set in Ireland, adds gothic touches to a domestic story. While shut up in a country house the heroine reads Richardson
's Clarissa. |
Textual Features | Frances Reynolds | FR
pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men. Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300. 2: 252 |
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