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
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Griffith
He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...
Intertextuality and Influence Adelaide O'Keeffe
Though the Quarterly Review announced the novel in April, AOK signed her statement To the Public (written at Chichester in Sussex) in May. She includes in her preliminary pages a list of fictional correspondents...
Intertextuality and Influence Maria Susanna Cooper
Secrecy and self-sacrifice are the keynotes of admired female behaviour here, and the story itself is overwhelmed by the emotions produced: Mrs Frankly writes to Lucy, for instance, can you pity and excuse the tedious...
Intertextuality and Influence Marjorie Bowen
MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Parsons
The novel opens, after a bow in the direction of the huge extent of the Ardenne Forest in the time of the Romans, with its offering at the time of the novel, as shelter for...
Intertextuality and Influence Susannah Gunning
This non-epistolary novel is broadly satirical. The protagonist's name, Clarissa, makes ironical reference to Richardson . The opening pages relate, as prologue, the early married life of her terribly young parents, Sir Frederick and Lady...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Astell
MA influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Mary Chudleigh , Elizabeth Thomas , Judith Drake , Damaris Masham (although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob , and Jane Barker
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sheridan
This novel's genesis lay in financial need and the encouragement given to FS by Samuel Richardson when he read her early romance. By late 1759 she was working at Sidney Bidulph, without telling her...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Holford
Woodville/Davenant credits his rescue from dissipation and folly partly to the virtuous Fanny
Holford, Margaret, the elder. Fanny: A Novel: In a Series of Letters. W. Richardson, 1785, 3 vols.
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and partly to learning the effects of seduction. His emotional education involves a scene which would humanize the heart even...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Parsons
Georgina, heroine of this novel, seems to contradict the (comparatively) egalitarian message of the previous one, since her eventual marriage choice is negatively directed by the need for people to marry within their rank. She...
Intertextuality and Influence Lucas Malet
Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences...
Intertextuality and Influence Regina Maria Roche
The novel, which quotes Isaac Watts on its title-page and is again set in Ireland, adds gothic touches to a domestic story. While shut up in a country house the heroine reads Richardson 's Clarissa.
Intertextuality and Influence Sophia Lee
An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I . It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it...
Intertextuality and Influence Alison Cockburn
The earliest letter addressed to David Hume, written on 20 August 1764, is rather elaborately jokey: Idol of Gaul, I worship thee not. The very cloven foot for which thou art worship'd I despise, yet...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sheridan
The Editor's Introduction names not only Richardson , but also John Home , whose tragedy Douglas, read aloud in the novel's opening pages, reminds Sidney's friend Cecilia of the old story of Sidney's distresses...

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