Samuel Richardson
English writer and printer
Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Wikipedia
Born: August 19, 1689, Mackworth, United Kingdom
Died: July 4, 1761 (age 71 years), London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Elizabeth Leake (m. 1733–1761) and Martha Wilde (m. 1721–1731)
Parents: Elizabeth Richardson
Books
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
1740
Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
1748
The History of Sir Charles Grandison
1753
Pamela in her Exalted Condition
1741
The Novels
Letters Written to and for Particular Friends: On the Most Important Occasions. Directing Not Only the Requisite Stile and Forms to be Observed in Writing Familiar Letters ; But how to Think and Act Justly and Prudently, in the Common Concerns of Human Life. Containing One Hundred and Seventy-three Letters
1741
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Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a ...
Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer, best known for his three epistolary novels: 'Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded', 'Clarissa, or the ...
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 little is known. His ...
He wrote three well-known epistolary novels, Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady, and The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
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Samuel Richardson ; Pamela (1740) and ; Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English.
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May 9, 2016 · He launched his own novel-writing career with the spoofs “Shamela,” in which the virginal young maid is recast as a slatternly schemer who ...
Top Samuel Richardson titles ... Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732–1749) (The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, ...
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As a printer his output included political writing, such as the Tory periodical The True Britain, the newspapers Daily Journal (1736-7) and Daily Gazeteer (1738) ...
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Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela:
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