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  1. 6 days ago · 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.

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      Edward Young (baptized July 3, 1683, Upham, Hampshire,...

    • Clarissa

      Clarissa, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published...

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      The English novelist Samuel Richardson explored the dramatic...

    • George Du Maurier

      Du Maurier’s happy childhood at Passy, France, is recalled...

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      Samuel Richardson: Quotes. Self-Condemnation. Too liberal...

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      In Samuel Richardson …and later master, of the Stationers’...

    • David Garrick

      David Garrick (born February 19, 1717, Hereford,...

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      Henry Fielding (born April 22, 1707, Sharpham Park,...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NovelNovel - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1741) The rise of the word "novel" at the cost of its rival, the romance, remained a Spanish and English phenomenon, and though readers all over Western Europe had welcomed the novel(la) or short history as an alternative in the second half of the 17th century, only the English and the Spanish had openly ...

  3. 4 days ago · In 1740, he bootlegged the first novel in English, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson, the book that invented romance fiction and turned many women into avid readers. Wealthy colonial book buyers raced to buy English titles, so American printers invested in pirating English books.

  4. 2 days ago · William Hill Brown wrote the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy (1789), which showed authors how to overcome ancient prejudices against this form by following the sentimental novel form invented by Samuel Richardson. A flood of sentimental novels followed to the end of the 19th century.

  5. Jun 24, 2024 · Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1971. Purchase book. Samuel Richardsons theory of fiction. Donald L. Ball. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111342474. The publication that you have attempted to download requires a license.

  6. 3 days ago · Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.

  7. Jun 13, 2024 · Vote up the most overrated required reading. They say there's no accounting for taste and overrated classic literature seems to prove as much. While critics, scholars, and your high shool English teacher may gushed over certain canonical works, you may look back at such novels and novellas with profound confusion.