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Samuel Richardson

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born

August 19, 1689 in Mackworth, Derbyshire, England, The United Kingdom

died

July 04, 1761

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Samuel Richardson was a major English 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

Richardson had been an established printer and publisher for most of his life when, at the age of 51, he wrote his first novel and immediately became one of the most popular and admired writers of his time.

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Books by Samuel Richardson

Average rating: 2.87 · 3,952 ratings · 378 reviews · 387 distinct works

	Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded 2.61 avg rating — 2,333 ratings — published 1740 — 91 editions	My rating:
	Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, Angus Ross (Editor) 3.22 avg rating — 1,509 ratings — published 1748 — 89 editions	My rating:
	The History of Sir Charles Grandison Bart 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1753 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Clarissa Harlowe: Volume 3 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1919 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Clarissa Harlowe: Volume 4 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Clarissa Harlowe; Or, the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Clarissa Harlowe; Or, the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady - Volume 9 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady - Volume 7 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Clarissa Harlowe or the history of a young lady - Volume 5 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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Quotes by Samuel Richardson

“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
― Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady

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“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”
― Samuel Richardson

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“Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.”
― Samuel Richardson

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