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 Eliza Haywood
EH was early in the field of adverse comment on Samuel Richardson 's Pamela, with a burlesque fiction, Anti-Pamela; or, Feign'd Innocence Detected.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
353-60
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
xli
Textual Production Frances Brooke
FB 's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Samuel Richardson was published in the Universal Magazine.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
188-9
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
276
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
211-12, 213
Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003.
88
The work's authorship had been implied on later works by...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's edition of Samuel Richardson 's Correspondence appeared in six volumes; she abridged the letters she chose by an average of about 30% and changed at least one or two words in all of them.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv
McCarthy, William. “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Richardson’s Correspondence? A Study of Her Editing”. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Vol.
54
, 2001, pp. 191-23.
Textual Production Sarah Scott
SS and Lady Barbara Montagu published through Samuel Richardson a set of educational cards for teaching history and geography.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
xxii-xxiii, xliv
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 Eliza Haywood
It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the...
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.
xl
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...

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