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Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) 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).
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 · Samuel Richardson, Inventor of the Modern Novel | The New Yorker. A Critic at Large. The Man Who Made the Novel. By Adelle Waldman. May 9, 2016. Richardson was an accidental novelist, and an...
Samuel Richardson. Pamela (1740) and Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English. People best know major 18th-century epistolary novels Sir Charles Grandison (1753).
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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.
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Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer, best known for his three epistolary novels: 'Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded', 'Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady', and 'The History of Sir Charles Grandison'.
