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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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Collyer
The protagonist's name had been used by both Richardson (in Clarissa) and Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) as a kind of generic appellation for a specific maid or young woman of the servant...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Masterman Skinn
AMS borrows from Richardson a masquerade scene and her basic epistolary form, and radically revises a borrowing from him when her heroine stabs a would-be rapist with scissors. But her general tone and her enjoyment...
Intertextuality and Influence Medora Gordon Byron
The title-page quotes Milton 's Paradise Lost (There wanted yet the master-work); the preface quotes Samuel Johnson saying that the novelist needs to have first-hand experience of the living world, but that...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Parsons
EP follows in the tradition of Richardson , both in her general scheme and in details like an incident involving a male character and his kept mistress. At the outset each of the central friends...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Green
The heroine's name, Clarissa, is presumably a belated tribute to Richardson . It is hard to gauge the weight of the allusion. Beautiful, dignified, superior, and so forth, Clarissa Dorrington is persecuted by her guardian's...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Her choice of genres came from her reading in French, not English, fiction, though Louisa (one of two survivors from a cycle of tales set at the court of Louis XIV of France) also...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Collyer
Betty is literally born in a barn after her destitute and pregnant mother is moved on by heartless parish officers. She survives the stigma of bastardy (though actually born in wedlock) and the hardships of...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Maria Bennett
Sentiment, however, prevails. In further plot twists, it emerges that Agnes is after all legitimate, while Lady Mary's apparently privileged daughter is illegitimate (and her wealth is not hers after all), since James Neville had...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Haswell Rowson
This novel is a tale of seduction, repentance, and forgiveness in the city of New York. Richardson 's Clarissa is a formative influence, but Rowson softens the story of Clarissa by allowing Charlotte's father...
Intertextuality and Influence Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
In The Wayward (Weird) Sister the same character is writing a journal which owes its origin to Samuel Richardson , that is to Miss Byron, the indefatigable Miss Byron, and Clementina. Oh, but I shall...
Intertextuality and Influence Cassandra Cooke
In a preface CC says she found the incident that forms the centre of this novel in The Christian Life by Dr John Scott (that is The Christian Life, from its beginning to its consummation...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Haswell Rowson
Rebecca Littleton is not in fact born into the servant class, nor does she experience it for long. At the outset she is sixteen, well educated, and exceptionally beautiful, the youngest and only surviving child...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Parsons
The opening words leave no doubt that this is in a different style from EP 's domestic novels: No sooner had the struggling soul escaped from the clay-cold body of Count Renaud, than his eldest...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Murray
The first anecdote about the girls is sentimental in tone. The sweet and lovely Miss Menil reforms the eleven-year-old malicious telltale Miss Cummings by taking her part when she has done wrong. Miss Cummings, filled...
Leisure and Society Mary Martha Sherwood
Her new religion, rigorous as it was, did not forbid fiction. Books were at a premium in India, and MMS was delighted at encountering Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe and Richardson . A new book, or...

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