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Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson was an English printer and novelist. His novels Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1748), told in the form of letters, explored the feelings and moral struggles of their heroines and won a huge readership across Europe. Clarissa, one of the longest novels in English, is regarded as a landmark in the development of the psychological novel.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Samuel Richardson. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/samuel-richardson
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