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Samuel Richardson

Also known as S. Richardson

English writer and printer (1689–1761)

AI overview

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

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Active from: 1947-06-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 42
Total plays: 884

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!”
“My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.”
“That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.”
“The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.”
“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”
“I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.”

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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

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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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