Excerpt from The History of Clarissa Harlowe, Vol. 3 of 8: In a Series of Letters
Lovelace to Belford. Glories in his contrivances. Gives an ad vantageous description of Clarissa's behaviour. Exults on her mentioning London. None but impudent girls, he says, should run away with a man. His further views, plots.
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Pamela (1740) and Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English.
An established printer and publisher for most of his life, Richardson wrote his first novel at the age of 51. He is best known for his major 18th-century epistolary novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753).