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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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