name: Samuel Richardson
birth_date: 1689-08-19 00:00:00
death_date: 1761-07-04 00:00:00
genres: Fiction
avg_rating: 3.03
ratings_count: 22665
about: Pamela (1740) and Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English. People best know major 18th-century epistolary novels Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Richardson, an established printer and publisher for most of his life, at the age of 51 years then wrote his first novel; people immediately most admired him of his time.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_... Pamela (1740) and Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English. People best know major 18th-century epistolary novels Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Richardson, an established printer and publisher for most of his life, at the age of 51 years then wrote his first novel; people immediately most admired him of his time.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_... ...more