Who is Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for 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). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with five sons, but remarried and had four daughters, who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and joined the admired writers of his day. Leading acquaintances included Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding, the physician and B...Read Full Biography of Samuel Richardson
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- From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
- The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
- If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
- Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
- Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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Wissamlovee2222: “where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.” –samuel richardsonSchoolreading: adoption & families themed topic books for children in eyfs, ks1 & ks2 with nonfiction & stories by samuel langley-swain, phoebe koehler, frank cottrell boyce & justin richardson
Meerladymagazin: passion a word which involves so many feelings. i feel it when we touch; i feel it when we kiss; i feel it when i look at you. for you are my passion; my one true love. -samuel richardson
Lad_mickie: samuel l. jackson and latanya richardson jackson. they met in 1970, when they were 21-year-old students in atlanta (richardson at spellman college, jackson at morehouse), and married in 1980; their only child, daughter zoe, a producer, was born in 1982.
Eloduakds: love, upon occasion, will draw an elephant through a key-hole. ~samuel richardson
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