Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson was born in 1689, the son of a joiner, and learned the printer's trade. He built up a prosperous printing house in London and printed the journals of the House of Commons. He came to fiction at fifty, almost by accident, at the request of two booksellers. He then wrote three epistolary novels, one of which runs to nearly a million words, and read his drafts to a circle of women readers whose opinions he sought. He died in 1761.

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• NovelPamela; or, Virtue RewardedSamuel Richardson · 1740LiteraturePublic domain