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    Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...
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  • Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English novelist and printer. Sam or Samuel Richardson may also refer to: Samuel T. Richardson (1857–1921), American...
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  • Samuel Richardson (fl. 1646) was an English layman and religious controversialist of the 1640s and 1650s, of Baptist views. From Northamptonshire, Richardson...
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    Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    1740 by the English writer Samuel Richardson. Considered one of the first true English novels, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature...
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  • used Mrs for unmarried women include Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Johnson. The split into Mrs for married women and Miss...
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    to contact anyone else, he wrote to the writer and publisher Samuel Richardson. Richardson, who had previously lent Johnson money, sent him six guineas...
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    her husband, Samuel L. Jackson: Juice (1992), Losing Isaiah (1995), Freedomland (2006), and Mother and Child (2009). In 2014, Richardson received a Tony...
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    became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1749)...
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    ("The gay [meaning joyful, merry] Lothario dresses for the fight"). Samuel Richardson used "haughty, gallant, gay Lothario" as the model for the self-indulgent...
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    Authors who have contributed to the development of this genre include Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë. Romance novels encompass various...
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    Clarissa (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    In Relation to Marriage is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a young woman, Clarissa...
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    Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre. Along with Samuel Richardson, Fielding is seen as the founder of the traditional English novel...
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    Samuel Thurston Richardson (July 8, 1857 – September 6, 1921) was an American attorney and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was...
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    18th century in England, whether in the novels of Eliza Haywood or Samuel Richardson (whose heroines in Pamela and Clarissa are both put in a position...
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    Samuel Richardson (born 1738) was a British justice of the peace and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1787 and Glamorganshire in 1798. He resided at...
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  • Samuel Richardson (24 May 1844 – 18 January 1938) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1871 and 1878 and captained the side from...
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    popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the...
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    German. The printer and author Samuel Richardson printed several of his books. Among many others Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, John Wesley, John Byrom...
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    novels after his plays could not pass the censors. In the interim, Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) had produced Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), and Henry...
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    wrestler Samuel Rappaport (fl. 1971–1984), American politician from Pennsylvania Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), English writer and printer Samuel Rosa (born...
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  • he was following a tradition in English literature established by Samuel Richardson in the 18th century. He was also attempting, according to the scholar...
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  • footballer Ruth Richardson (born 1950), New Zealand politician Salli Richardson, American television and film actress Samuel Richardson (disambiguation)...
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  • 1963 for the prominent physician John Samuel Richardson. In 1979 he was created a life peer as Baron Richardson, of Lee in the County of Devon, in the...
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    The History of Sir Charles Grandison (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    called Sir Charles Grandison, is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson first published in February 1753. The book was a response to Henry...
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  • writing. 1760–1767: Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy. 1761: Samuel Richardson died. 1764: Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto (initially...
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    "It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't." Similarly, Samuel Richardson wrote in his novel Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady: "If my...
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    Pamela in her Exalted Condition (category Novels by Samuel Richardson)
    Pamela in Her Exalted Condition is Samuel Richardson's 1742 sequel to his novel, Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded. Richardson wrote the novel as a response to...
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  • evidence regarding what meaning, if any, Sidney intended for it. The Samuel Richardson novel Pamela in 1740 or 1741 inaugurated the use of Pamela as a given...
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    then-popular novel Pamela (1740) by Fielding's contemporary and rival Samuel Richardson and is composed, like Pamela, in epistolary form. Shamela was originally...
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  • in the Manchester FA Regional Futsal league from September 2006. Samuel Richardson captained the team to league success in March 2007 with the team scoring...
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