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Samuel Richardson | |
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 1750 portrait by Joseph Highmore | |
| Born | 19 August 1689 (baptised) Mackworth, Derbyshire, England |
| Died | 4 July 1761 (aged 71) Parsons Green, now in London, England |
| Occupation | Writer, printer and publisher |
| Language | English |
| Spouse | Martha Wilde, Elizabeth Leake |
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761[1]) 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.[2] Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with their six children, but remarried and had six more children, of whom four daughters reached adulthood, leaving no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and joined the admired writers of his day. Leading acquaintances included Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding, the physician and Behmenist George Cheyne, and the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed.[3] At Law's request, Richardson printed some poems by John Byrom.[4] In literature, he rivalled Henry Fielding; the two responded to each other's literary styles.
- ^ Dussinger, John A. "Richardson, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23582. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "The manuscripts, Letter from Samuel Richardson to Andrew Millar, 31 July, 1750. Andrew Millar Project. University of Edinburgh". www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ The Spiritual Side of Samuel Richardson, Mysticism, Behmenism and Millenarianism in an Eighteenth-Century English Novelist, Gerda J. Joling-van der Sar, 2003, pp. 111–141.
- ^ The Spiritual Side of Samuel Richardson, Mysticism, Behmenism and Millenarianism in an Eighteenth-Century English Novelist, Gerda J. Joling-van der Sar, 2003, p. 128.