Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
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- Name (English)
- Samuel Richardson
- Short name
- Samuel Richardson
- Year of birth
- 1689
- Year of death
- 1761
- Short Description
- "Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer. He is best known for his 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). Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions.
At a very early age, Richardson was apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost his first wife along with their five sons, and eventually remarried. With his second wife, he had four daughters who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue running the printing business. While his print shop slowly ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and immediately became one of the more popular and admired writers of his time." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
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Object information
Image: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum - Public Domain Mark
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