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Article: Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the Reception of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote in the Popular Press.
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- June 22, 2000
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The recent discovery of the complete manuscript of Samuel Johnson's December 10, 1751, letter to the novelist Samuel Richardson sheds new light on the publication circumstances of Charlotte Lennox's novel The Female Quixote. As Eric C. Walker points out in his essay "Charlotte Lennox and the Collier Sisters: Two New Johnson Letters," Johnson's letter proves that John Boyle, the fifth Earl of Orrery, a recent acquaintance of Johnson's and no doubt acting on his request, "played a direct role in persuading" Andrew Millar (1707-68), a financial backer of Johnson's Dictionary and certainly one of the leading booksellers of the period, to publish The Female Quixote. "`Lord ...
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