Sarah Scott

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Standard Name: Scott, Sarah
Birth Name: Sarah Robinson
Nickname: Sally
Nickname: Pea
Nickname: Bridget
Married Name: Sarah Scott
Pseudonym: A Person of Quality
Pseudonym: Henry Augustus Raymond, Esq.
Pseudonym: A Gentleman on his Travels
SS , who published during the second half of the eighteenth century, wrote for money and never signed her name to her work. She is known as a novelist; but as a historian and translator she also deserves the appellation of woman of letters, and as one who chose to pursue an alternative, carefully-thought-out, woman-centred lifestyle she deserves the appellation of feminist. Her fictional writing does not repeat itself in form but takes on new technical issues with each title. Her concerns are always those of proto-feminism: the problems of middle-class women disadvantaged by poverty, lack of beauty, and absence of outlets for their talents, and the plight of lower-class women and the disabled.

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Smith also made a warm friend of Lady Isabella King (who later founded Bailbrook House near Bath as a refuge for gentlewomen without funds).
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
53-6, 62
Indeed, though Smith died years before Lady Isabella...
Friends, Associates Catharine Macaulay
Early in her life CM knew (or was known to) the somewhat older Robinson sisters (the future Elizabeth Montagu and Sarah Scott ), whose mother's family estate was not far from her father's.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Remembering Beyond the Great Forgetting”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
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...
Health Anna Miller
The future novelist Sarah Scott , reporting this news, wrote that Anna was now out of danger and would not be too badly scarred.
Montagu, Elizabeth. “MSS MO 1-6923”. Huntington Library Manuscripts.
1749
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Walker
Meanwhile, Lady Frances begins by building one hundred dwellings (designed by Capability Brown ) to house artisans and workmen, and proceeds to construct a museum, library, astronomical observatory, an anatomy room, studios, a botanical garden...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Astell
MA influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Mary Chudleigh , Elizabeth Thomas , Judith Drake , Damaris Masham (although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob , and Jane Barker
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Plumptre
Olivia, taught by able, progressive male teachers, has the kind of education which is generally closed to women. Besides a circle of talented friends, she supports various financially needy people, and unlike the stereotypical ugly...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body.
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
49-50
She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Leisure and Society Lady Eleanor Butler
Their self-consciously utopian existence was probably modelled in part on Sarah Scott 's Millenium Hall. While the Ladies were a byword for gentility, their Irish servant Mary Carryll was known as Molly the Bruiser...
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...
Literary responses Phebe Gibbes
The notice in the Critical Review opened condescendingly. Guessing that the author was female, it warned its readers: It seldom happens that ladies equal in genius to Lennox , Brooke s, and Scott , figure...
Occupation Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...
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 Sarah Fielding
The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield
Publishing Mary Leapor
This time the publication was undertaken by Richardson. It was edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne , with a much smaller subscription list, which however included Elizabeth Montagu , Sarah Scott , and Elizabeth Cutts ...

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