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Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761 [1]) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working ...
Jun 30, 2024 · Samuel Richardson was an English novelist who expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the letter form (“epistolary novel”). His major novels were Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48). Richardson was 50 years old when he wrote Pamela, but of his first 50 years.
May 9, 2016 · The Man Who Made the Novel. By Adelle Waldman. May 9, 2016. Richardson was an accidental novelist, and an accidentally great one; his powers of empathy clashed with his pinched piety. Illustration ...
- Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. Samuel Richardson. Eye, Deals.
- Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. Samuel Richardson. Wish, Power Of Love, Trusted.
- For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. Samuel Richardson. Integrity, Stay Positive, Mind.
- Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson. Mother, Integrity, May.
Samuel Richardson, (baptized Aug. 19, 1689, Mackworth, near Derby, Derbyshire, Eng.—died July 4, 1761, Parson’s Green, near London), English novelist.After moving with his family to London at age 10, Richardson was apprenticed to a printer before setting up in business for himself in 1721.
Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major eighteenth century writer, primarily known for his three monumental novels Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison. Richardson is widely considered to be the inventor of the epistolary novel—that is, a novel written in the form of a collection of letters and other ...
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Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel first published in 1740 by the English writer Samuel Richardson. Considered one of the first true English novels, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature about marriage. Pamela tells the story of a fifteen-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews ...
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