Tobias Smollett

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Standard Name: Smollett, Tobias

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Literary responses Margaret Calderwood
The editor of MC 's travel account, Alexander Fergusson , did not think much of her novel; he wrote that it scarcely fulfilled expectations.
Calderwood, Margaret. “L’envoi”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, pp. 353-78.
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He thought that many of her characters and episodes, though...
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.
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The preface acknowledges the formative influence of Richardson (as well as Henry Fielding

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