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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...
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  • Samuel Richardson (fl. 1646) was an English layman and religious controversialist of the 1640s and 1650s, of Baptist views. From Northamptonshire, Richardson...
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  • Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English novelist and printer. Sam or Samuel Richardson may also refer to: Samuel T. Richardson (1857–1921), American...
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  • novel by Samuel Richardson Clarissa (film), a 1941 German film Clarissa (TV series), a British television drama series based on Richardson's novel Clarissa...
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    Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    1740 by the English writer Samuel Richardson. Considered one of the first true English novels, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature...
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    became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1749)...
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    her husband, Samuel L. Jackson: Juice (1992), Losing Isaiah (1995), Freedomland (2006), and Mother and Child (2009). In 2014, Richardson received a Tony...
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    to contact anyone else, he wrote to the writer and publisher Samuel Richardson. Richardson, who had previously lent Johnson money, sent him six guineas...
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    ("The gay [meaning joyful, merry] Lothario dresses for the fight"). Samuel Richardson used "haughty, gallant, gay Lothario" as the model for the self-indulgent...
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  • used Mrs for unmarried women include Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Johnson. The split into Mrs for married women and Miss...
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    Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    In Relation to Marriage is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. The novel tells the tragic story of a young woman...
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    contributed to the development of this genre include Maria Edgeworth, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë. Romance novels encompass various...
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  • Hergest, and followed a tradition in English literature established by Samuel Richardson in the 18th century. He was also attempting, according to the scholar...
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  • commonly refers to: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1740 Pamela (name), a given name and, rarely, a surname. Pamela...
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  • 1963 for the prominent physician John Samuel Richardson. In 1979 he was created a life peer as Baron Richardson, of Lee in the County of Devon, in the...
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  • Samuel Richardson (24 May 1844 – 18 January 1938) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1871 and 1878 and captained the side from...
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    Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre. Along with Samuel Richardson, Fielding is seen as the founder of the traditional English novel...
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    Samuel Thurston Richardson (July 8, 1857 – September 6, 1921) was an American attorney and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was...
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    18th century in England, whether in the novels of Eliza Haywood or Samuel Richardson (whose heroines in Pamela and Clarissa are both put in a position...
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    popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the...
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    The History of Sir Charles Grandison (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    called Sir Charles Grandison, is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson first published in February 1753. The book was a response to Henry...
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  • Greenfield as Joe Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Neil Steve Monroe as Lincoln Samuel Richardson as Paul In addition, Alfred Molina appears, uncredited, as lawyer...
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  • novels after his plays could not pass the censors. In the interim, Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) had produced Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), and Henry...
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    Samuel Richardson (born 1738) was a British justice of the peace and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1787 and Glamorganshire in 1798. He resided at...
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  • twelve years old, adapted from The History of Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson. Pierre seeks to direct a avant-garde production, but Victor is unhappy...
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    "It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't." Similarly, Samuel Richardson wrote in his novel Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady: "If my...
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    1623) and the poet Richard Lovelace (d. 1658), as well as author Samuel Richardson (d. 1761) The wedding cake is said to date back to 1703 when Thomas...
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    version of the letter separates her from her "admired predecessor, Samuel Richardson" in that Austen's letters are "a misleading guide to the human heart...
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    Pamela in her Exalted Condition (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    Pamela in Her Exalted Condition is Samuel Richardson's 1742 sequel to his novel, Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded. Richardson wrote the novel as a response to...
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  • (1719) and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (also 1719) Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) The following are other early long...
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