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Samuel Richardson
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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). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with their six children, but remarried and had six more children, of whom four daughters reached adulthood, leaving no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and joined the admired writers of his day. Leading acquaintances included Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding, the physician and Behmenist George Cheyne, and the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed. At Law's request, Richardson printed some poems by John Byrom. In literature, he rivalled Henry Fielding; the two responded to each other's literary styles.
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4Sir Charles Grandison, Volume I-IV: the Cambridge edition of the works of Samuel RichardsonPublished 2022Read online (BSB)
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5Pamela in her exalted conditionPublished 2012Read online (BSB)
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6Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas EdwardsPublished 2013Read online (BSB)
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7Early worksPublished 2012Read online (BSB)
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8Correspondence of Richardson's final years (1755-1761)Published 2019Read online (BSB)
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16Meditations collected from the sacred books, and adapted to the different stages of a deep distress, gloriously surmounted by patience, piety, and resignation: being those mentioned in the History of Clarissa as drawn up by her for her own use ; To each of which is prefixed, a short historical account, connecting it with the storyPublished 1976Order via interlibrary loanBook
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