Tobias Smollett

The editor of MC 's travel account, Alexander Fergusson , did not think much of her novel; he wrote that it scarcely fulfilled expectations.He thought that many of her characters and episodes, though...

Tobias Smollett , writing for the Critical in March 1760, took EN 's book as an attack on the obstetrician William Smellie (though Nihell specifically disavows reference to individuals). His notice is a defence of...

This time the Critical, probably again written by Smollett , employed an elaborate metaphor suggesting that EN 's pamphlet was a monstrous birth which the periodical itself had fathered: it warned her not to...

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...

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...

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. Subscribers included...

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...

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...

Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. She was entering a debate previously carried on among such...

Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney (unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. The preface acknowledges the formative influence of Richardson (as well as Henry Fielding

The title-page quotes Byron pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...

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 ...

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...

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.

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. She...