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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
Anna Letitia Barbauld first revealed that EC wrote five paragraphs (regarded as authoritative) in a conversational debate among characters in Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison on Man's usurpation, and woman's natural independency.
Richardson, Samuel. Sir Charles Grandison. Editor Harris, Jocelyn, Worlds Classics, Oxford University Press, 1986.
3: 242 and n
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Jenkins
This little book (with no notes or index) opens on an echo of Jenkins's fuller work on Austen, with a tribute to the mid eighteenth century as a time of brilliant flowering in the English...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Seward
AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Angela Thirkell
The first house is that of her Burne-Jonesgrandparents : The Grange, North End Lane, Fulham.
Thirkell, Angela. Three Houses. Robin Clark, 1986.
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This house once belonged to the novelist Samuel Richardson , and AT opens the book on Susannah Highmore
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sheila Kaye-Smith
Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises),
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols.
2: 45-8
it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Montagu
EM seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living).
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
2: 179
In the dialogues she...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hester Mulso Chapone
When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter she mulled over religious and literary questions...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Teft
She praises Pope , reproves Richardson for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Williams
Williams voices admiration for each of Richardson 's three novels, and ingeniously defends him against a recurrent criticism: Proceed to teach, thy labours ne'er can tire, / Thou still must write, and we must still...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Cowper Madan
Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding.
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66.
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She later sometimes discussed books with her husband: she admired Richardson 's Pamela for its power over the emotions and also its power to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jean Marishall
The first seventeen letters, addressed to a fourteen-year-old ex-pupil, are moralising or even nagging; Marishall hopes their publication will promote the happiness of mankind.
Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot, 1788, 2 vols.
1: prelims
Later she discusses the predicament of women, and although...
Travel Angela Thirkell
As well as her happy Sundays at her Burne-Jones grandparents' home, The Grange, North End Lane, Fulham (once Samuel Richardson 's house), the young Angela Mackail spent many holidays staying with them at the small...
Travel Jane Collier
She mentions her habit of walking back and forth between London and North End (now part of Fulham), where Richardson had his suburban home.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
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