Books with author 1689-1761 Richardson

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary fiction work by British novelist Samuel Richardson, printed in 1748. It is about the miserable tale of a female protagonist whose chase for morality is persistently hindered by her family and is considered as among the extensive stories in the English language with reference on approximated word count. It is commonly remarked as Samuel’s master work.The principled Clarissa bequeaths wealth though provides it into the dominance of her envious family. When they attempt to compel her to marry someone, she feels unwilling to escape with Lovelace, a stud, who deceives her. He shacks her with a madam and her seducers. Her dignity rendered unchaste, she attempts to escape, although is misled into returning, supposedly to marry him and to give back her standing. As the prostitutes keep her down, she is raped by Lovelace. He vows to marry her, though she does not desire him and runs away. Tormented, Clarissa kills herself through hunger. Lovelace's family despise him and his bygone companions murders him for torturing her.Samuel Richardson was a British author and publisher. He is renowned for his 3 epistolary works of art: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded in 1740, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady in 1748 and The History of Sir Charles Grandison in 1753. Samuel was a well-established printer and publisher for his whole life and published around 500 varying publications, such as journals and magazines. He was also famous to work carefully with the London book merchant Andrew Millar on many instances.In his youth, Samuel was learned to a printer, whose daughter he sooner or later married. In the course of time, he remarried when his first wife together with their 5 sons died. He had 4 daughters with his second wife, however he had no male inheritors to keep managing the publication company.