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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), among the most important and
influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer.
Beyond its extraordinary range, his correspondence holds special
interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist, who thought
long and hard about the letter as a form. The Cambridge Edition of
the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete
edition of his letters. The present volume contains his
correspondences with Dr George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards, linked
not only by their pronounced medical content but also by their
generally unguarded character. An early admirer of Richardson's
Pamela (1740-41), Cheyne elicits some of the novelist's most
significant statements concerning his own literary practice and
tastes. Edwards, an astute literary critic as well as notable
sonneteer, draws Richardson into expressing some remarkable
insights as a close reader of poetry and prose.
Samuel Richardson (1689 1761), renowned master printer and
celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his
lifetime. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel
Richardson is the first complete edition of these letters. This
volume contains his correspondences, many published for the first
time, with three very different young women, all seeking to find
their voice within family and society while corresponding with a
celebrated author and moralist. Sarah Wescomb and Frances Grainger,
two young, unmarried correspondents, sought paternal advice from
the middle-aged author and in the process contested stances taken
in his novels. Laetitia Pilkington, an accused adulteress, offers
poignant glimpses into an impoverished woman's struggles to survive
in Grub Street. The scholarly apparatus in this volume provides
ample information about these three women's lives and their milieu,
giving fascinating insights into eighteenth-century English social
and literary history."
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