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  • Published: 1 Jun 1999
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781851965144
  • Set ISBN: 9781851965144

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Sarah Scott & Clara Reeve


As far as we know, Sarah Scott closed her publication career in 1772 with The Test of Filial Duty, in a Series of Letters between Miss Emilia Leonard and Miss Charlotte Arlington: A Novel, in two volumes. Since the publication of A Journey through Every Stage of Life eighteen years earlier, much had happened in Scott’s personal and literary life, and similarly much had happened in development of the genre of the novel. By the 1770s, the ‘Richardsonian revolution’ in the novel, especially the epistolary form, had been taken in a number of directions, by writers in Britain and Europe. Not only did many women writers turn to the form, exploiting historic and conventional cultural associations of women and the private sphere with the form of familiar letters, but prominent male proponents of Enlightenment culture, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Tobias Smollett, used this genre in the 1760s and 1770s as a suitable vehicle for disseminating these movements. In The Test of Filial Duty Scott herself takes up the epistolary form for the first time and adapts it, too, to the interests of Bluestocking feminism. In A Journey through Every Stage of Life, and her subsequent novels Millenium Hall and Sir George Ellison, she used something like the parable in order to present Bluestocking feminism. In The Test of Filial Duty she does so largely by incorporating major elements of romance, including the popular narrative of the fairy tale, and the courtship novel, into a work that otherwise purposely exhibits the characteristics of the novel as it was then increasingly understood, in distinction from the romance – as a representation of ‘real’ life.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introductions By Gary Kelly
  • The Test of Filial Duty By Sarah Scott
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      Note on the Text By Gary Kelly
    • Volume I
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        The Preface
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        Letter I: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter II: Miss Charlotte Arlington, to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter III: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter IV: Miss Charlotte Arlington to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter V: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter VI: Miss Charlotte Arlington, to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter VII: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter VIII: Miss Charlotte Arlington, to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter IX: Miss Leonard to Miss Arlington
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        Letter X: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XI: Miss Charlotte Arlington, to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter XII: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XIII: Miss Charlotte Arlington, to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter XIV: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XV: From the Same to the Same
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        Letter XVI: From the Same to the Same
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        Letter XVII: Miss Charlotte Arlington, to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter XVIII: Miss Emilia Leonard to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XIX.: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XX: From the same to the same
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        Letter XXI: Miss Charlotte Arlington to Miss Emilia Leonard
    • Volume II
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        Letter XXII: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington,
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        Letter XXIII: From the Same to the Same
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        Letter XXIV: Miss Charlotte Arlington to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter XXV: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XXVI: Miss Charlotte Arlington to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter XXVII: Miss Emilia Leonard, to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XXVII: Miss Charlotte Arlington to Miss Emilia Leonard. 157
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        Letter XXIX: Miss Emilia Leonard to Miss Charlotte Arlington
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        Letter XXX: Miss Charlotte Arlington to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter XXXI: Miss Emilia Leonard to Mrs. Edmondbury
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        Letter XXXII: Mrs. Edmondbury to Miss Emilia Leonard
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        Letter XXXIII: Miss Emilia Leonard to Mrs. Edmondbury
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        Letter XXXIV: Mrs. Edmondbury to Mr. Edmondbury
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        Letter XXXV: Sir Charles Leonard to Mr. Lewis
  • The Progress of Romance By Clara Reeve
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      Note on the Text By Gary Kelly
    • Volume I
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        Preface
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        Evening I: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening II: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening III: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening IV: Sophronia, Hortenshis, Euphrasia
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        Evening V: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening VI: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening VII: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening VIII: Hortensius, Euphrasia, Sophronia
    • Volume II
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        Evening IX: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening X: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening XI: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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        Evening XII: Hortensius, Sophronia, Euphrasia
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    The History of Charoba, Queen Of Ægypt: Taken from a History of Ancient Ægypt, According to the Traditions of the Arabians. 1 By Clara Reeve
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    Back Matter