Richardson, Barbauld, and the Construction of an Early Modern Fan Club
Annie Watkins
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Richardson, Barbauld, and the Construction of an Early Modern Fan Club

An Eighteenth Century Celebrity and his Fan Club

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Much 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. This book aims to show how his manuscript letters were turned into asaleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneurRichard Phillips, while under the guiding hand ofanother, slightly later, literary celebrity, AnnaLaetitia Barbauld. Barbauld s capacious, but heavilyedited selection of letters is analyzed here...