Clarissa (1748): mentions 3 books, mentioned in 12 books
Quotes from Samuel Richardson's books, and about them
Pamela on Aesop's Fables: “Why, no more nor less, than that I am like the grasshopper in the fable, which I have read of in my lady's book, as follows:--[See the Aesop's Fables which have lately been selected and reformed from those of Sir R. L'Estrange, and the most eminent mythologists.]”
Pamela on Telemachus: “What are you reading? Sir, said he, and stammered with the surprise, it is the French Telemachus; for I am about perfecting myself, if I can, in the French tongue.”
Pamela on The Whole Duty of Man: “pray, when you take leave of them, present them with three guineas worth of good books; such as a family bible, a common prayer, a whole duty of man, or any other you think will be acceptable”
Pamela on Book of Common Prayer: “pray, when you take leave of them, present them with three guineas worth of good books; such as a family bible, a common prayer, a whole duty of man, or any other you think will be acceptable”
Clarissa on The Orphan: “The best Plays of this kind are _The Orphan_, _Venice Preserved_, _Alexander the Great_, _Theodosius_, _All for Love_, _Oedipus_, _Oroonoko_, _Othello_, &c.”
Clarissa on Venice Preserv'd: “The best Plays of this kind are _The Orphan_, _Venice Preserved_, _Alexander the Great_, _Theodosius_, _All for Love_, _Oedipus_, _Oroonoko_, _Othello_, &c.”
Jane Eyre on Pamela: “Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.”
Reading Like a Writer on Pamela: “Such works are actually closer to the epistolary form in which a number of the very earliest novels, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, were written.”