Carolyn Woodward

Standard Name: Woodward, Carolyn

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Jane Collier
The earliest critical comment on the commonplace-book is that by Michael Londry in the Times Literary Supplement of 5 March 2004. Further useful discussion has been added by Carolyn Woodward , Ros Ballaster, and Christopher Dyer Johnson
Literary responses Jane Collier
The book's authorship is generally accepted, although Jayne Elizabeth Lewis has written that JC produced it evidently with some assistance from Fielding .
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissas Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in The History of a Young LadyClarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 45-67.
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Carolyn Woodward has argued on the basis of closely reading Sallys...
Reception Sarah Fielding
Critic Carolyn Woodward has noted (besides this novel's picture of a community of women in Protestant-nunnery style) a general resemblance between its plot and that of The Sylph (probably by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ), 1778.
Woodward, Carolyn, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Sarah Fielding to Isobel Grundy. 5 Aug. 2003.
Textual Features Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
The Sylph of the title is the secret, unidentified adviser of the heroine, Julia, Lady Stanley (who before her marriage was a naive country girl), during her not always successful struggles to live morally amid...

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Woodward, Carolyn. “Crossing Borders with Mademoiselle de Richelieu: Fiction, Gender, and the Problem of Authenticity”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
16
, No. 4, pp. 573-01.
Woodward, Carolyn, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Sarah Fielding to Isobel Grundy.
Woodward, Carolyn. “Jane Collier, Sarah Fielding, and the Motif of Tormenting”. The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, Vol.
16
, 2005, pp. 259-73.
Woodward, Carolyn. “Sarah Fielding and the Inscription of Authorship in The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754)”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Woodward, Carolyn. “The Modern Figure of the Author, Sarah Fielding, and the Case of The Histories of Some of the Penitents of the Magdalen HouseEnglish, Vol.
58
, The English Association, 2009, pp. 278-96.