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001 2014011152
003 DLC
005 20150530081621.0
008 140620s2015 nyuc b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014011152
020 $a9780521830348 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR3666$b.A4 2015
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100 1 $aRichardson, Samuel,$d1689-1761,$eauthor.
240 10 $aCorrespondence.$kSelections
245 10 $aCorrespondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington /$cSamuel Richardson ; edited by John A. Dussinger.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
300 $alxix, 398 pages :$bportrait ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ;$v3
520 $a"Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), renowned master printer and celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his lifetime. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of these letters. This volume contains his correspondences, many published for the first time, with three very different young women, all seeking to find their voice within family and society while corresponding with a celebrated author and moralist. Sarah Wescomb and Frances Grainger, two young, unmarried correspondents, sought paternal advice from the middle-aged author and in the process contested stances taken in his novels. Laetitia Pilkington, an accused adulteress, offers poignant glimpses into an impoverished woman's struggles to survive in Grub Street. The scholarly apparatus in this volume provides ample information about these three women's lives and their milieu, giving fascinating insights into eighteenth-century English social and literary history"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Among all of Samuel Richardson's female correspondents, Sarah Wescomb has been perhaps the least respected by modern scholars, even to the extent of their mistaking her proper name. Richardson's biographers can scarcely disguise their contempt for her: '[Richardson] was evidently genuinely fond of the girl, and she as evidently deserved it, in spite of or because of her utter lack of intellectual pretensions, even to correct spelling. Their correspondence is almost barren of substance and is as repetitious and trivial as possible'"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; General introduction; Richardson's correspondence with Sarah Wescomb; Richardson's correspondence with Frances Grainger; Richardson's correspondence with Laetitia Pilkington; Appendix: Richardson's list of worthy women; Index.
600 10 $aRichardson, Samuel,$d1689-1761$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPilkington, Laetitia,$d1712-1750$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aNovelists, English$y18th century$vCorrespondence.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aDussinger, John A.,$eeditor.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/30348/cover/9780521830348.jpg