Richardson, Samuel
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Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761). Novelist. Born in Derbyshire, Richardson settled in London and became a master printer. His first novel
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded (1740–2) was published when he was 51.
Clarissa Harlowe and
Sir Charles Grandison followed in 1744 and 1753. They were instant successes. They dealt with the manners and morals of relatively ordinary people attempting to survive in a naughty world with some degree of happiness and self-respect. They were salacious enough to make excellent reading. As such they caught a taste for a contemporary interest in manners and morals started by
Addison and
Steele's Tatler and
Spectator. They established the value of epistolary writing as a vehicle for fiction. Richardson was much read in France where Marivaux had already established sentimental fiction; Rousseau's
Nouvelle Héloïse is indebted to him.
Nicholas Phillipson
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Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: A Study of his Printing Based on Ornament Use and Business Accounts
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Keith Maslen. Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: A Study...University of Otago, 2002. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) is usually thought...William Merritt Sale Junior, in Samuel Richardson: Master Printer, had pioneered...
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New Essays on Samuel Richardson.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...39.50. Hostile readers, confusing Samuel Richardson with his heroines, have sometimes complained, with Samuel Johnson, that there is always something Richardson prefers to the truth. The editor of this...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Samuel Richardson was warrior for fairness; The longtime Minneapolis resident fought for civil rights and was an advocate for education.(NEWS)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 2/21/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Byline: TIM HARLOW; STAFF WRITER Samuel Richardson grew up directly across the street...employment, education and housing. Richardson served as the president of the...historic I Have a Dream speech. Richardson's goal was to have everybody...
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Learning to read Richardson: 'Pamela,' 'speaking pictures,' and the visual hermeneutic. (Samuel Richardson)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Richardson; lisez-le sans cesse. Denis Diderot: Eloge de Richardson In a recent essay. "Richardson's |speaking pictures,'" Janet E. Aikins addresses Samuel Richardson's use of paintings as physical objects within his novels, his...
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The narrative function of John Belford in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Clarissa, narrative function, Samuel Richardson WORKS CITED Castle, Terry...Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa. Ithaca: Cornell...2003/Spring 2004): 5-23. Richardson, Samuel. Clarissa. Ed. Angus Ross...
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Locke, Richardson, and Austen: or, how to become a gentleman.(Miscellany)(John Locke, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...BRINGS TOGETHER John Locke, Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen, in relation...late point in the plots of both Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded...link between John Locke and Samuel Richardson; there has been even more work...
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Reading reform in Richardson's 'Clarissa.' (novel 'Clarissa, Or The History of A Young Lady' by author Samuel Richardson)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...reform thread their way through Samuel Richardson's long second novel, two versions...sympathy and the triumph of virtue. Richardson's novel holds two kinds of...the difference. In Clarissa, Richardson once again rejects the conventional...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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The birth of: Samuel Richardson.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 12/12/2006; 461 words
; ...Tom and Lucinda Richardson have added a son, Samuel, to their family...year-old Lara. Samuel arrived on November...and run by the Richardson family for five...Tom and Lucinda Richardson with children Katherine, Samuel and Lara.
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Using "femalities" to "make fine men": Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the feminization of narrative. (Samuel Richardson)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; Samuel Richardson's active, "to the moment" correspondence...your Corrections."(1) Although Richardson's tone in the Clarissa correspondence...preface to Sir Charles Grandison Richardson claims that the story of this "Man...
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The birth of Samuel Richardson.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 12/12/2006; 444 words
; ...Tom and Lucinda Richardson have added a son, Samuel, to their family...Northumberland. Samuel was born at Hexham...year-old Lara. Samuel arrived on November...owned and run by the Richardson family for five generations...
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Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
RICHARDSON, SAMUEL (1689 – 1761) RICHARDSON, SAMUEL (1689 – 1761), English novelist. Samuel Richardson was born at Mackworth in Derbyshire. His father was...
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Samuel Richardson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Richardson The English novelist Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) brought dramatic intensity and psychological...told in letters, had become popular in England before Samuel Richardson's time, but he was the first English novelist to have...
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Richardson, Samuel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761), received...continuations’ persuaded Richardson to continue the story in Pamela II...Shamela Andrews (1741), appeared which Richardson believed to be by Fielding (as it...
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Fielding, Henry
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...an attack on novelist Samuel Richardson's concept of "virtue...Shamela parodied Richardson's epistolary style...Fielding attacked Richardson's schematic moral...socialite Lady Bellaston. Samuel Johnson found the moral...
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Henry Fielding
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...today was largely created by Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Richardson's works, written in the form of a series of...he edited in his lifetime. First Novels In 1740 Richardson published a novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...
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