Susanna Duncombe

MMS judged Anna Seward to be greedy for flattery, especially from the opposite sex. In 1799 she met Hannah More , who was then at the height of her fame and to whom admittance was...

His close friends, too, included a remarkable number of writing women: among others Sarah Fielding , sister of his literary arch-rival, Jane Collier , Hester Mulso (later Chapone) , Susanna Highmore (later Duncombe) , and...

Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter (who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave (the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter...

EC associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson , Samuel Richardson , Thomas Birch , Moses Browne , Richard Savage , William and John Duncombe

Hester Mulso became a member of Samuel Richardson 's circle (as depicted in the well-known drawing by Susanna Highmore ), and engaged with him in lively debate on the position, status, and duties of unmarried...

Susanna Duncombe published in the Gentleman's Magazine for June 1772 a Sketch of the Character of the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, and Essays on Various Subjects, which sensitively...

This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson , Christopher Smart , and the young William Cowper , as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe and Susanna Highmore .

The Monthly Review excerpted generously from ML 's book and remarked that some letters of this extraordinary young woman . . . have a solidity in them far beyond what could be expected from one...

The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield

The book had gone to press in June 1757. The original press run of 1,018 copies had to be supplemented with a further 250. First of several more editions was the Dublin one of the...

The arrangements for publication had not been entirely smooth sailing. ML was insulted when Freemantle predicted that the book might make her £10. Freemantle was nevertheless instrumental in persuading her to publish and in...

Susanna Duncombe offered FB permission to use (for her life of Richardson ) Duncombe's now well-known sketch of him reading aloud.

The first house is that of her Burne-Jonesgrandparents : The Grange, North End Lane, Fulham. This house once belonged to the novelist Samuel Richardson , and AT opens the book on Susannah Highmore