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Samuel Richardson
1689 – 1761
English writer and printer (1689–1761)
- Kingdom of Great Britain · Kingdom of England
- British
- Novel of Sentiment
About
Samuel Richardson 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.
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