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    Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club

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    MPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him. This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director

    Richardson, Geo. M. an Herman Grimm (3 Briefe)

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    RICHARDSON, GEO. M. AN HERMAN GRIMM (3 BRIEFE) Richardson, Geo. M. an Herman Grimm (3 Briefe) (Br4305) Brief 4305 (Br4305) Brief 4306 (Br4306) Brief 4307 (Br4307

    Richardson, David M. - An inaugural dissertation on phthisis pulmonalis

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    Handwritten inaugural dissertation on phthisis pulmonalis by David M. Richardson, of Tennessee.Inaugural dissertation; no. 296

    Death /

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    Cover title.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn3108774; Papers and correspondence of Henry Handel Richardson 1852-1983. Series 5. Richardson's second separately issued work of a short story. It has been reset by a different printer with Richardson's revision of the text. It is not an offprint from the English review. The title was later changed to Mary Christina

    Conceptual Richardson

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    The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of his best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson’s novels and characters—finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Revisiting Richardson reflects on a decade of scholarship while delivering innovative perspectives on an author whose work continues to be indispensable for understanding the history of the novel.Peer-reviewe

    Richardson Letter Re: Disappearance of Son

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    Letter from Sarah M. Richardson to Fr. Nobili regarding the disappearance of Richardson's son, Edward, from college

    Richardson Letter Re: Disappearance of Son

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    Letter from Sarah M. Richardson to Fr. Nobili regarding the disappearance of Richardson's son, Edward, from college

    Mossworth Estate, Strathfield [cartographic material] : for auction on the ground, by Richardson & Wrench Ltd., Saturday, Sepr. 30th 1899, at 3 o'clock.

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    Sales plan for land in Mosely Street, Strathfield, New South Wales.; "Terms, 10% deposit, 15 per cent in three months without interest, balance in equal instalments at 1, 2 & 3 years bearing interest at 5 per cent."; "Torrens title."; "Cowdery & Ewing, licensed surveyors under R.P.A., 88 Pitt Street, Sydney."; "Messrs. Clayton & Pratt, solicitors to the estate."; "J.M. Cantle, 90 Pitt St."; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-lfsp2617
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