Passage 47 - Novelist Samuel Richardson
The novel develops after the
death of Defoe, with S.Richardson (1689-1761), a professional
printer who took novel-writing when he was fifty. Richardson liked to help young women with
the composition of their love-letters and was asked by a publisher to write a volume of model
letters for use on various occasions. He was inspired to write a novel
in the form of a series of
letters, a novel which should implant a moral lesson in the minds of its readers (he thought of
these readers primarily as women). This novel was
Pamela, or
Virtue Rewarded, which describes
the defamation made on the honor of a virtuous housemaid by a young man.
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