Famous authors · 18th century
Samuel Richardson
1689 to 1761 · English · Literary fiction
What sets their writing apart: Study Richardson for interiority in real time: the epistolary form that reports a mind under pressure as it happens. A model for immediacy and psychological closeness.
Notable works
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)
- Clarissa
- The History of Sir Charles Grandison
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