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.
Stipple engraving of Samuel Richardson, used by Anna Letitia Barbauld in her edition of Richardson's correspondence. He is standing with his right hand tucked into his jacket and a book in his left hand; in the related painting by Joseph Highmore, Richardson holds a paper instead of a book.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1995.
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Publishing Sarah Fielding
She described herself as the Author of David Simple on the title-page of this and of all her subsequent fictional works. She did not put her name on a title-page until her last book. This...
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, 2016.
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Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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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...
Reception Mary Davys
One contemporary reader recorded in a couplet the conviction that Familiar Letters ends with the two correspondents heading for marriage. Recent readers (as represented by editor Martha Bowden and several classes of students) are more...
Reception Joanna Baillie
Charles Landseer (brother of Sir Edwin Landseer ) exhibited at the Royal Academy a painting from JB 's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 511
Reception Anna Seward
Publication of a Beauties of was an accolade which put AS on a par with, for instance, Johnson or Richardson .
Reception Teresia Constantia Phillips
An outcry greeted the publication, and pamphlets of attack and defence followed. The Gentleman's Magazine printed two anonymous epistles addresssed to TCP in August. After the second volume appeared, Henry Muilman made an attempt to...
Reception Eliza Haywood
EH 's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally...
Reception Elizabeth Hervey
It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...
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, 2011–2013, 3 vols.
Before the recent revival of interest in women's writing, however, she was remembered almost exclusively as the author of Charlotte Temple, that is...
Textual Features Barbara Hofland
The title-page quotes James Montgomery . The story, set in the seventeenth century, opens as Iwanowna marries Frederic Moldovani on her nineteenth birthday. News of his death closes the first volume; but tragedy is held...
Textual Features Sarah Fielding
Whereas Samuel Richardson had criticised William Whitehead 's The Roman Father, saying that it validated personal feeling at the expense of patriotism, the author of the pamphlet takes issue with Richardson and defends Whitehead's...
Textual Features Catherine Talbot
CT 's letters often convey her literary opinions, discussing writing by, for instance, Marie de Sévigné , Richardson , Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson . She also writes of the details of her daily life...
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, 1897, pp. 2: 250 - 300.
2: 252
She remarks on the paternal affection he entertained...

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