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
Publishing Mary Chandler
She dedicated it to her doctor brother John , saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad—
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
36
that is, to appear in print before the public. She said it was...
Publishing Eliza Haywood
EH gave her name on the dedication though not on the title-page. Lady Betty Germain had eloped with and married politician Anthony Henley in February. Before the end of the year he was said to...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
SF published by subscription The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, printed by Samuel Richardson as by the Author of David Simple.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli.
xl
Publishing Mary Barber
This month Barber's teenage son Rupert was on duty all day to dispense copies to subscribers, at the painter's house in Covent Garden where he was a student or apprentice.
Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 155-74.
172n13
The true publication date...
Reception Eliza Haywood
EH 's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally...
Reception Elizabeth Hervey
It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...
Reception Susanna Haswell Rowson
She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90.
Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011–2013, 3 vols.
Before the recent revival of interest in women's writing, however, she was remembered almost exclusively as the author of Charlotte Temple, that is...
Reception Mary Davys
One contemporary reader recorded in a couplet the conviction that Familiar Letters ends with the two correspondents heading for marriage. Recent readers (as represented by editor Martha Bowden and several classes of students) are more...
Reception Joanna Baillie
Charles Landseer (brother of Sir Edwin Landseer ) exhibited at the Royal Academy a painting from JB 's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 511
Reception Anna Seward
Publication of a Beauties of was an accolade which put AS on a par with, for instance, Johnson or Richardson .
Reception Teresia Constantia Phillips
An outcry greeted the publication, and pamphlets of attack and defence followed. The Gentleman's Magazine printed two anonymous epistles addresssed to TCP in August. After the second volume appeared, Henry Muilman made an attempt to...
Textual Features Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to...
Textual Features Harriette Wilson
Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject.
qtd. in
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
249
But...
Textual Features Anna Maria Mackenzie
AMM 's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding and Richardson (to...
Textual Features Elizabeth Griffith
The letters are edited versions of those the couple exchanged in actual life, in which EG 's sense and worth persuaded Richard to marry her.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Henry is an Irish gentleman whose first idea is a...

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