Ralph Griffiths

01 January 1720 - 01 January 1803

Standard Name: Griffiths, Ralph,, 1720 - 1803

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Laetitia Pilkington	Her youngest son, Jack (John Carteret Pilkington ), also came back to her for support, with tales of mistreatment from their father. Jack was alleged by Isaac Reed to have told Theophilus Cibber (who...
Friends, Associates	Ann Radcliffe	While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR ) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks , George Fordyce , Ralph Griffiths ,...
Friends, Associates	Mary Jones	MJ corresponded with Charlotte Lennox and with publisher Ralph Griffiths and his wife Isabella . Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson , Joseph Spence , Thomas Warton , and apparently Bonnell Thornton
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Moody	EM 's early literary friends included Edward Lovibond , a Surrey poet who (she says in her verse collection) trained her in poetry, George Hardinge , a distinguished lawyer and also a writer, Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 142 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Hardinge
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	Margaret Holford	The Critical Review thought the manners of the East were well caught here (though not its language) and that the young author showed promise of improvement. Arthur Aikin and Ralph Griffiths in the Monthly wrote...
Literary responses	Mary Jones	Catherine Talbot found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter liked MJ 's poetry. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 183 The collection was warmly praised by Ralph Griffiths in the Monthly Review:...
Occupation	Mary Collyer	MC joined forces with her husband to work as a bookseller (that is publisher) and owner-manager of a circulating library. They seem to have had a close working relationship with Ralph Griffiths , publisher...
Occupation	Oliver Goldsmith	After working at medicine and teaching, OG became a hack or low-level professional writer by joining the ranks of the freelances who wrote for Ralph Griffiths on the Monthly Review. His works of high...
Publishing	Elizabeth Moody	EM sent the Monthly editor, Ralph Griffiths , a satirical ballad, The Distemper'd Muse, A Poem Address'd to F[ulke] G[reville] Esq., after Greville had vilified the magazine in print. Rizzo, Betty. “’Downing Everybody’: Johnson and the Grevilles”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol. 12 , AMS Press, 2001, pp. 17-46. 34-5
Textual Production	Elizabeth Moody	There is an unexplained gap in her reviewing between August 1791 and January 1800. Four of her reviews were co-authored: with Ralph Griffiths , his son George , or her husband . Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 141 and n32, 143
Textual Production	Mary Collyer	Its publishers, Wilson and Durham , were business associates of the Collyers. A second edition followed in 1770, and a Garland facsimile in 1974. Grossman, Joyce. “Social Protest and the Mid-Century Novel: Mary Collyers The History of Betty BarnesEighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , 2001, pp. 165-84. 169, 165n1 Though it was MC 's habit to claim her...
Textual Production	Mary Jones	MJ wrote to thank Ralph Griffiths of the Monthly Review for inviting her to participate in some literary venture or other, but she declined the invitation. Forster, Antonia. Email about Mary Jones to Isobel Grundy. 25 Apr. 2005.

Timeline

May 1749

Ralph Griffiths began publishing the Monthly Review.

Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.

1 (1759)

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April 1761-May 1762

Andrew Kippis edited, and Ralph Griffiths published, a periodical called the Library; or, Moral and Critical Magazine.

Forster, Antonia. Email about Mary Jones to Isobel Grundy. 25 Apr. 2005.

1845

The Monthly Review finally ceased publishing its latest new series.

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