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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).
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).
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).
May 29, 2019 · He sought and found his material from life as he had observed and reflected upon it from childhood and youth as a member of the working class in a highly socially conscious society to his position as an increasingly successful and prosperous printer and publisher.
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.
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...
Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews is a virtuous but poor maid working for the wealthy Lady B at her Bedfordshire home. On her deathbed, Lady B recommends that Pamela should work for her son, Mr. B. Pamela excels in her new role, and so Mr. B gives her four guineas and some silver from his mother’s pocket.
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.
May 18, 2018 · He is considered the originator of the modern English novel and has also been called the first dramatic novelist as well as the first of the eighteenth-century “sentimental” writers. He introduced tragedy to the novel form and substituted social embarrassment for tragic conflict, thus developing the first novel of manners.
Samuel Richardson, Thomas Keymer (Editor), Alice Wakely (Editor) 2.77. 12,921 ratings1,250 reviews. One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel.
