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Samuel Richardson

Also known as S. Richardson

English writer and printer (1689–1761)

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Samuel Richardson was a male writer, novelist, prose writer, and book printer from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of England. Born on 19 August 1689, he wrote in the English language and practiced vegetarianism. His religious worldview was Anglican. He died on 4 July 1761 in London and is buried at St Bride's Church in the City of London.

His notable works include *Clarissa Harlowe*, *The history of Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded*, and *The novels of Samuel Richardson*. Additional titles are *Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa* and *Letters angloises, ou Histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlove*. His writing is associated with the genre of Sentimentalism. His works have been described in sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, the *Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia*, *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 19 August 1689
Died: 4 July 1761
Works: 264

Top works

Clarissa Harlowe
The history of Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded
The novels of Samuel Richardson
Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa
Historia del caballero Cárlos Grandison, escrita en ingles por Samuel Richardson ... y puesta en castellano por E.T.D.T. ...

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Samuel
Family name: Richardson
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of England
Place of birth: Mackworth
Place of death: London
Occupation: prose writer
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Religion: Anglicanism
Genre: Sentimentalism
Image: Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore.jpg

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Commons category: Samuel Richardson
date of birth: 1689-07-31
date of death: 1761-07-04
lifestyle: vegetarianism
Commons gallery: Samuel Richardson
name in native language: Samuel Richardson
writing language: English language
Commons Creator page: Samuel Richardson
P8168: Maria of Aragon
P12749: August Hermann Francke
place of burial: St Bride's Church, City of London

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Works in European collections

35 objects attributed to Samuel Richardson, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Clarissa

Historia del caballero Cárlos Grandison

Clarissa or, The history of a young lady .. vol. II

Clarissa or, The history of a young lady.. vol. VIII

Clara Harlowe novel

Clarissa or, The history of a young lady .. vol. V

Pamela, ou La vertu récompensée traduit de l'anglois : troisiéme partie

Pamela, ou La vertu récompensée traduit de l'anglois : quatriéme partie

Nouvelles lettres angloises ou Histoire du chevalier Grandisson

Clarissa or, The history of a young lady.. vol. VII

Clara Harlowe novel

Historia del caballero Carlos Grandison

Clara Harlowe novel

~39 min read

Encyclopedic overview

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 the printer John Wilde, whose daughter Martha he eventually married. All six of their children died in infancy or childbirth, with Martha herself dying in childbirth in 1731. In 1733, he married Elizabeth Leake, daughter of printer John Leake. Together they had six more children, of whom four daughters reached adulthood.

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