Samuel Richardson

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Standard Name: Richardson, Samuel
SR 's three epistolary novels, published between 1740 and 1753, exerted an influence on women's writing which was probably stronger than that of any other novelist, male or female, of the century. He also facilitated women's literary careers in his capacity as member of the publishing trade, and published a letter-writing manual and a advice-book for printers' apprentices.
Stipple engraving of Samuel Richardson, used by Anna Letitia Barbauld in her edition of Richardson's correspondence. He is standing with his right hand tucked into his jacket and a book in his left hand; in the related painting by Joseph Highmore, Richardson holds a paper instead of a book.

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Textual Production Mehetabel Wright
Many of her poems, sent to relations, seem to have been lost in transit. Only a handful have been identified, though there may be more to come. Some which do survive are to be found...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
SF published anonymously her Remarks on Clarissa, Addressed to the Author.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxix
Textual Production Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS edited for the Regent Library a selection from the works of Samuel Richardson .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980.
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Textual Production Anne Grant
The future AG addressed to Harriet Reid a letter written to the moment in the Richardsonian style, bit by bit throughout the day.
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806, 3 vols.
1: 6-22
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
During the same year, 1790, Johnson published Young Grandison. A Series of Letters from Young Persons to Their Friends, MW 's free rendering of a Richardson -inspired juvenile conduct book by the Dutchwoman Maria Geertruida van de Werken de Cambon
Textual Production Anne Lister
AL wrote in her diary a statement echoing Rousseau : I know my own heart, and understand my fellow man. From this her editor Helena Whitbread titled the first printed volume of the diary.
The...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
As a member of the Richardson circle, his informal core committee of collaborators on his second and third novels, Hester Mulso had some influence on the shaping of Clarissa, both through face-to-face conversation and...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
SF 's The History of the Countess of Dellwyn was published in an edition of a thousand copies by Andrew Millar , and printed by Samuel Richardson .
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
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Textual Production Sarah Scott
The Montagu Papers at the Huntington Library contain 367 of SS 's letters to her sister, and about twice that many from Elizabeth to her. Nicole Pohl 's edition of Scott's letters (those which survived...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC 's surviving letters span the years both before and after her marriage. Apart from her best-known letters, exchanged with Richardson himself, Richardson's circle, and other Bluestockings of the original generation, she corresponded with Frances Burney
Textual Production Lady Eleanor Butler
Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby .
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
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They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell
Textual Production Anna Maria Mackenzie
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 ...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
Begun in mockery of Richardson 's Pamela, Joseph Andrews developed into a new kind of novel, the comic epic poem in prose.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xxxviii
Textual Production Anna Williams
Johnson wrote to Samuel Richardson to enlist his support for AW in her plan to compile a dictionary of philosophical, that is scientific, terms.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
1: 79-80
Textual Production Emma Tennant
Like a Daniel Defoe or Samuel Richardson , she professes to be only the editor of her protagonist's own text.

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