Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer who lived from 1689 to 1761. He is remembered as a pioneering novelist whose works helped establish the modern novel form and influenced literature throughout Europe and beyond.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 19 August 1689
- Died
- 4 July 1761
- Works
- 264
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 42
- Total plays
- 884
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5 total works indexed
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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 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.