Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
Samuel Richardson
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A fifteen-year-old servant writes home about her late mistress's son, who has begun to follow her about the house, and goes on writing through everything he then tries. Richardson was a printer who came to fiction at fifty by way of a commission for a book of model letters, and invented the English novel more or less by accident. It was answered, parodied and pirated inside a year. Fifty-nine plates by painters from Hogarth to Munch trace the rooms, houses and assemblies that frame a servant's testimony.
A fifteen-year-old servant writes home about her late mistress's son, who has begun to follow her about the house, and goes on writing through everything he then tries. Richardson was a printer who came to fiction at fifty by way of a commission for a book of model letters, and invented the Engli...
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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an English printer and novelist born in Derbyshire. Asked to compile a book of model letters, he wrote a novel in them instead at fifty-one and invented the English epistolary novel; he printed his own books and was Master of the Stationers' Company. His works include Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an English printer and novelist born in Derbyshire. Asked to compile a book of model letters, he wrote a novel in them instead at fifty-one and invented the English epistolary novel; he printed his own books and was Master of the Stationers' Company. His works in...
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