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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.
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) is one of the pioneers of the English novel who set the major trends of writing novels in English with identifiable themes like “love followed by marriage, quarrelling and reconciliation, gain or loss of money or of social status” (Daiches 700).
Clarissa, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in installments in 1747–48. Among the longest English novels ever written (more than a million words), the book has secured a place in literary history for its tremendous psychological insight.
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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.
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.
With his virtuoso handling of epistolary narration, and the psychological and circumstantial realism made possible by his technical innovations, Samuel Richardson (b. 1689–d. 1761) has long been seen as a pioneer of the modern novel.
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, 1689-1761, English novelist. Richardson began his career in 1706 as an apprentice printer in London, and later came to write fiction. His Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded ( 1741 ), an epistolary novel, is held by many to make him the originator of the English novel.
