Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Barbara Hofland | BH
also pays much attention in her poems to other writers. Stanzas to the River Don footnotes Wortley Hall as a former home of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Hofland, Barbara. Poems. Printed by J. Montgomery, and sold by Vernor and Hood. 6-11 and n |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | In her capacity as editor she made an exception to the paper's policy of publishing original poems only, for the sake of Wordsworth
's The Mad Mother, reprinted from Lyrical Ballads. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 54 |
| Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library
's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM
) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson
, to emulate Henry Fielding
and Smollett
... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | It was printed by Samuel Richardson
. The British Library
copy is T 1568 (7). The month after publication SC
wrote to Richardson
to express concern that he had identified her as the author: I... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Nihell | EN
replied to the attack on her by Smollett
, in a pamphlet entitled An Answer to the Author of the Critical Review for March 1760. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 9 (1760): 412 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Lennox | A magazine (a genre only thirty years old) conventionally reprinted material first published elsewhere, and Lennox employed contributions from others, but she also did a great a great deal of translating and original writing herself... |
| Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 19 |
| Textual Features | Frances Burney | Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes Byron
pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. title-page Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. iii |
| Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | MP's work was controversial from the beginning. It became the topic of newspaper paragraphs and of pamphlets. Several answers to it seem to have been written by Matthew Pilkington
, and one answer to him... |
| Publishing | 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. 464 |
| Literary responses | E. Arnot Robertson | Again the sexual content was an issue. Devlin finds both reticence and modesty in EAR
, but critics found the book's sexual candour appalling, or called it crude or [r]ather too full blooded, or... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of... |
| Literary responses | Ann Masterman Skinn | The Critical Review dismissed the novel as nauseous and insipid, and the heroine as so inconsistent as to be incredible; its only reason for noticing it at all was to deter AMS
from further publication... |
Timeline
1715-35: Alain-René Lesage published, in three instalments...
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1715-35
Alain-René Lesage
published, in three instalments of several volumes each, his immensely popular picaresquenovelGil Blas (or Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane).
Before September 1748: Tobias Smollett published his first novel,...
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Before September 1748
Tobias Smollett
published his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random.
By March 1751: Tobias Smollett published his novel The Adventures...
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By March 1751
Tobias Smollett
published his novelThe Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
By December 1751: The first volume of Theory and Practice of...
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By December 1751
The first volume of Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Scottish obstetrician William Smellie
was published (written with help from Tobias Smollett
).
January 1756: The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature,...
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January 1756
The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, a monthly, began publishing under the editorship of Tobias Smollett
, ostensibly by a Society of Gentlemen.
By January 1758: Novelist Tobias Smollett published his Complete...
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By January 1758
Novelist Tobias Smollett
published his Complete History of England.
1759-67: The British Magazine; or, Monthly Repository...
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1759-67
The British Magazine; or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen and Ladies was published in London, edited by Tobias Smollett
.
January 1760-December 1761: Tobias Smollett's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared...
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January 1760-December 1761
Tobias Smollett
's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared over twenty-five issues of the British Magazine (beginning in the first, January 1760): this made it the first-ever serialised novel.
18 June 1771: Tobias Smollett published his last novel,...
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18 June 1771
Tobias Smollett
published his last novel, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.
1774: The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice...
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1774
The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice in Miniature was published in twelve volumes of abridged texts by Sarah
and Henry Fielding
, Richardson
, Smollett
, and Lennox
.
1780: James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as...
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1780
James Harrison
(hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.
Texts
Preston, Thomas R., and Tobias Smollett. “Introduction and Notes”. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, edited by O M Brack and O M Brack, University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Smollett, Tobias. Roderick Random. J. Osborn, 1748.