Samuel Richardson
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish writer and printer (1689-1761)
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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 Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).
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Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.
Samuel Richardson reading aloud the manuscript of Sir Charles Grandison to a group of friends in 1751. Coloured Engraving by Miss Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.
Title page of Pamela
Title page of Clarissa
Portrait of Richardson from the 1750s by Mason Chamberlin
Title page of Grandison
Bust of RichardsonWriters from United Kingdom 6
About this person
Samuel Richardson 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 periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar.
Country
United KingdomCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1689 to 1761 · aged 71
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32 languages
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