Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761
Overview
Works: | 3,079 works in 10,118 publications in 12 languages and 115,697 library holdings |
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Genres: | Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Epistolary fiction Psychological fiction Essays Literary criticism Didactic fiction History Novels Romance fiction |
Roles: | Author, Printer, Editor, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Creator, Arranger, Attributed name, Bookseller, Dubious author, Contributor, Collector, Book producer, Honoree, Recipient |
Classifications: | PR3664, 823.6 |
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Most widely held works about
Samuel Richardson
- The anthology and the rise of the novel : from Richardson to George Eliot by Leah Price( )
- The rise of the novel; studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding by Ian Watt( Book )
- Virtue, gender, and the authentic self in eighteenth-century fiction : Richardson, Rousseau, and Laclos by Christine Roulston( )
- Passion and virtue : essays on the novels of Samuel Richardson by David Blewett( )
- Styles of meaning and meanings of style in Richardson's Clarissa by Gordon D Fulton( )
- Samuel Richardson : a collection of critical essays by John Carroll( Book )
- Samuel Richardson, a man of letters by Carol Houlihan Flynn( )
- Samuel Richardson & the dramatic novel by Ira Konigsberg( )
- Reason and religion in Clarissa : Samuel Richardson and 'the famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton' by Derek Taylor( )
- Heroic commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James by Patricia McKee( )
- Love and death in the American novel by Leslie A Fiedler( Book )
- Making gender, culture, and the self in the fiction of Samuel Richardson : the novel individual by Bonnie Latimer( )
- Samuel Richardson by Austin Dobson( Book )
- Five masters : a study in the mutations of the novel by Joseph Wood Krutch( Book )
- Samuel Richardson by R. F Brissenden( Book )
- Samuel Richardson; dramatic novelist by Mark Kinkead-Weekes( Book )
- The rape of Clarissa : writing, sexuality, and class struggle in Samuel Richardson by Terry Eagleton( Book )
- Samuel Richardson by Elizabeth Bergen Brophy( Book )
- Samuel Richardson : a biography by T. C. Duncan Eaves( Book )
- Samuel Richardson : printer and novelist by Alan Dugald McKillop( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Samuel Richardson
Clarissa : or, The history of a young lady by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
365 editions published between 1747 and 2019 in 6 languages and held by 5,701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Richardson's masterpiece in letter form, relates the story of a beautiful woman sacrificed to a heartless libertine
365 editions published between 1747 and 2019 in 6 languages and held by 5,701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Richardson's masterpiece in letter form, relates the story of a beautiful woman sacrificed to a heartless libertine
The history of Sir Charles Grandison by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
479 editions published between 1753 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 4,142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sir Charles Grandison / Samuel Richardson
479 editions published between 1753 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 4,142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sir Charles Grandison / Samuel Richardson
Pamela : or, Virtue rewarded by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
126 editions published between 1741 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 3,412 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a gentleman in 18th century England marrying a servant girl, a challenge to the social hierarchy. This shows a typical representative of the middle class which had already challenged the aristocracy and was beginning to impose its ideal of Protestant respectability and hard work on England and the world
126 editions published between 1741 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 3,412 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a gentleman in 18th century England marrying a servant girl, a challenge to the social hierarchy. This shows a typical representative of the middle class which had already challenged the aristocracy and was beginning to impose its ideal of Protestant respectability and hard work on England and the world
Pamela by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
231 editions published between 1740 and 2019 in 10 languages and held by 2,363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a gentleman in 18th century England marrying a servant girl, a challenge to the social hierarchy. This shows a typical representative of the middle class which had already challenged the aristocracy and was beginning to impose its ideal of Protestant respectability and hard work on England and the world
231 editions published between 1740 and 2019 in 10 languages and held by 2,363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a gentleman in 18th century England marrying a servant girl, a challenge to the social hierarchy. This shows a typical representative of the middle class which had already challenged the aristocracy and was beginning to impose its ideal of Protestant respectability and hard work on England and the world
The history of Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded by
Samuel Richardson(
)
129 editions published between 1769 and 2012 in English and held by 1,681 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sometimes regarded as the first romance novel, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded tells the story of a 15-year-old maid named Pamela, whose master, Mr. B, is infatuated by her beauty and intelligence. Unable to propose marriage because of his high rank, Mr. B kidnaps Pamela and locks her away in one of his homes. While Pamela hates her master at the beginning, she comes to realize his true nature and falls in love. A comment on the class structure in English society, the novel was very popular upon its publication in 1740, but came under much criticism because of its perceived vulgarity
129 editions published between 1769 and 2012 in English and held by 1,681 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sometimes regarded as the first romance novel, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded tells the story of a 15-year-old maid named Pamela, whose master, Mr. B, is infatuated by her beauty and intelligence. Unable to propose marriage because of his high rank, Mr. B kidnaps Pamela and locks her away in one of his homes. While Pamela hates her master at the beginning, she comes to realize his true nature and falls in love. A comment on the class structure in English society, the novel was very popular upon its publication in 1740, but came under much criticism because of its perceived vulgarity
Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
73 editions published between 1741 and 2019 in 6 languages and held by 1,339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on actual events, Pamela is the story of a young girl who goes to work in a private residence and finds herself pursued by her employer's son, described as a 'gentleman of free principles.' Unfolding through letters, the novel depicts with much feeling Pamela's struggles to decide how to respond to her would-be seducer and to determine her place in society
73 editions published between 1741 and 2019 in 6 languages and held by 1,339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on actual events, Pamela is the story of a young girl who goes to work in a private residence and finds herself pursued by her employer's son, described as a 'gentleman of free principles.' Unfolding through letters, the novel depicts with much feeling Pamela's struggles to decide how to respond to her would-be seducer and to determine her place in society
Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady, comprehending the most important concerns of private life by
Samuel Richardson(
)
142 editions published between 1748 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
142 editions published between 1748 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Clarissa Harlowe, or, the history of a young lady by
Samuel Richardson(
)
6 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The lady is still alive. The Colonel having just sent his servant to let me know that she inquired after me about an hour ago I am dressing to attend her. Joel begs of me to dispatch him back though but with one line to gratify your present impatience
6 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The lady is still alive. The Colonel having just sent his servant to let me know that she inquired after me about an hour ago I am dressing to attend her. Joel begs of me to dispatch him back though but with one line to gratify your present impatience
The history of Sir Charles Grandison : In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa.
In seven volumes. Vol. II by
Samuel Richardson(
)
97 editions published between 1753 and 1931 in English and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
97 editions published between 1753 and 1931 in English and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Early works by
Samuel Richardson(
)
8 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 821 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, religious controversialism, anti-theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism - and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables - resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own. Readers familiar with only Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison will gain a fresh appreciation of the genesis of and the historical and cultural complexities at work in these famous novels, and readers new to Richardson will encounter an agile writer who invites closer consideration. A lengthy introduction situates the constituent works in Richardson's career as well as in the period more broadly, and the extensive textual apparatus records the bibliographical histories of the texts and their treatment by their present editor"--
8 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 821 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, religious controversialism, anti-theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism - and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables - resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own. Readers familiar with only Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison will gain a fresh appreciation of the genesis of and the historical and cultural complexities at work in these famous novels, and readers new to Richardson will encounter an agile writer who invites closer consideration. A lengthy introduction situates the constituent works in Richardson's career as well as in the period more broadly, and the extensive textual apparatus records the bibliographical histories of the texts and their treatment by their present editor"--
Pamela in her exalted condition by
Samuel Richardson(
)
7 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 797 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson is the first fully annotated scholarly edition of Richardson's works, including his securely attributable minor works, ever to have been undertaken. Five substantial collected editions have been published before now: The Works of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by Edward Mangin (19 volumes, 1811); The Works of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by Leslie Stephen (12 volumes, 1883); The Novels of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by William Lyon Phelps (19 volumes, 1901-2); The Novels of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by Ethel M. McKenna (20 volumes, 1902); and finally The Novels of Samuel Richardson (18 volumes, 1929-31). None of these editions, however, contains any explanatory or textual apparatus, and none contains any of Richardson's writings beside his three major novels"--
7 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 797 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson is the first fully annotated scholarly edition of Richardson's works, including his securely attributable minor works, ever to have been undertaken. Five substantial collected editions have been published before now: The Works of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by Edward Mangin (19 volumes, 1811); The Works of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by Leslie Stephen (12 volumes, 1883); The Novels of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by William Lyon Phelps (19 volumes, 1901-2); The Novels of Samuel Richardson, with an introduction by Ethel M. McKenna (20 volumes, 1902); and finally The Novels of Samuel Richardson (18 volumes, 1929-31). None of these editions, however, contains any explanatory or textual apparatus, and none contains any of Richardson's writings beside his three major novels"--
The history of Sir Charles Grandison : in a series of letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson, author of Pamela and Clarissa. In
seven volumes by
Samuel Richardson(
)
19 editions published between 1762 and 1796 in English and held by 747 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
19 editions published between 1762 and 1796 in English and held by 747 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pamela: a comedy. As it is perform'd gratis, at the late theatre in Goodman's-Fields by
Henry Giffard(
)
44 editions published between 1741 and 1742 in English and held by 653 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
44 editions published between 1741 and 1742 in English and held by 653 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pamela : or, virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents. ... In four volumes by
Samuel Richardson(
)
54 editions published between 1741 and 1792 in English and held by 553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
54 editions published between 1741 and 1792 in English and held by 553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Clarissa Harlowe, or, the history of a young lady : nine volumes by
Samuel Richardson(
)
28 editions published between 1902 and 2020 in English and held by 551 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lovelace's love for Clarissa and the young woman's attitudes toward marriage are revealed through the series of letters comprising this eighteenth-century classic
28 editions published between 1902 and 2020 in English and held by 551 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lovelace's love for Clarissa and the young woman's attitudes toward marriage are revealed through the series of letters comprising this eighteenth-century classic
Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady : comprehending the most important concerns of private life, and particularly shewing,
the distresses that may attend the misconduct both of parents and children, in relation to marriage by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
89 editions published between 1748 and 2010 in English and German and held by 548 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Klassisk engelsk kærlighedsroman fra 1700-tallet
89 editions published between 1748 and 2010 in English and German and held by 548 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Klassisk engelsk kærlighedsroman fra 1700-tallet
The history of Sir Charles Grandison. In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa.
In seven volumes. by
Samuel Richardson(
)
45 editions published between 1753 and 1762 in English and Undetermined and held by 505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
45 editions published between 1753 and 1762 in English and Undetermined and held by 505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The paths of virtue delineated : or, the history in miniature of the celebrated Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles
Grandison by
Samuel Richardson(
)
23 editions published between 1768 and 1777 in English and held by 417 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
23 editions published between 1768 and 1777 in English and held by 417 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The novels of Samuel Richardson / complete and unabridged by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
31 editions published between 1901 and 1999 in English and held by 377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
31 editions published between 1901 and 1999 in English and held by 377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The apprentice's vade mecum (1734) by
Samuel Richardson(
Book
)
20 editions published between 1975 and 1993 in English and held by 363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
20 editions published between 1975 and 1993 in English and held by 363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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- Grandison, Charles Sir
- Fielding, Henry 1707-1754 Bibliographic antecedent Other Author
- Defoe, Daniel 1661?-1731 Author
- Eliot, George 1819-1880
- Price, Leah Author
- Watt, Ian 1917-1999 Author
- Carroll, John 1929- Author of introduction Other Author Editor
- Laclos, Choderlos de 1741-1803
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
- Fulton, Gordon D. Author
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American fiction Archetype (Psychology) in literature Boccaccio, Giovanni, Brown, Charles Brockden, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, Clarissa (Richardson, Samuel) Conflict of generations Cooper, James Fenimore, Criticism and interpretation Death in literature Defoe, Daniel, Eliot, George, England English fiction Epistolary fiction, English Faulkner, William, Fiction Fiction--Technique Fielding, Henry, Grandison, Charles,--Sir Great Britain Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Kidnapping victims Literature and anthropology Literature and society Love in literature Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Masculinity in literature Master and servant Melville, Herman, National characteristics, American National characteristics, American, in literature Poe, Edgar Allan, Proust, Marcel, Psychological fiction, American Race relations in literature Rape in literature Rape victims Richardson, Samuel, Sex in literature Social classes in literature Social conflict in literature Stendhal, Twain, Mark, United States Virtue Women and literature Women household employees Young women--Crimes against
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Alternative Names
A. Samuel Richardson
Auteur de Pamela & de Clarisse.
Auteur de Paméla & de Clarisse, l' 1689-1761
Richardson.
Richardson 1689-1761
Richardson Samuel
Samuel Riçardson
Samuel Richardson britisk skribent
Samuel Richardson Brits schrijver
Samuel Richardson brittisk författare
Samuel Richardson écrivain britannique
Samuel Richardson englischer Schriftsteller
Samuel Richardson English writer and printer (1689-1761)
Samuel Richardson escritor inglés
Samuel Richardson pisarz angielski
Samuel Richardson scrittore inglese
Schryver van de gevallen van Clarisse, en van den heer Charles Grandison, de, 1689-1761
Semuelis Ričardsonas Anglų rašytojas.
Uitgeever van Pamela en Clarissa, de, 1689-1761
Σάμουελ Ρίτσαρντσον
Ричардсон С
Ричардсон С. 1869-1971
Ричардсон, Сэмюэл английский писатель
Самюел Ричардсън
Самюел Ричардсън английски писател и издател
Самјуел Ричардсон
Семюел Річардсон
Сэмюель Ричардсон
Сэмюэл Ричардсон английский писатель
Сэмюэл Рычардсан
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סמואל ריצ'רדסון
סמואל ריצ'רדסון סופר בריטי
ساموئل ریچاردسون
ساموئل ریچاردسون نویسنده بریتانیایی
صمويل ريتشاردسون
सैमुएल रिचर्डसन
리차드슨, 새뮤얼 1689-1761
리처드슨, 새뮤얼 1689-1761
새뮤얼 리처드슨
サミュエル・リチャードソン
リチャードスン
リチャードソン
リチャードソン, サミュエル
塞繆爾·理查森
森姆理察臣
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