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The History of Sir Charles Grandison; in a Series of Letters. By Mr. Samuel Richardson, ... In Seven Volumes. ... The Seventh Edition. of 7; Volume 4
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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British Library
T058980
The plates are dated 1778.
London : printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, T. Longman, [and 12 others in London], 1781. 7v.,plates ; 12°
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
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British Library
T058980
The plates are dated 1778.
London : printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, T. Longman, [and 12 others in London], 1781. 7v.,plates ; 12°
308 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1970
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Samuel Richardson
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(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).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
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).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
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February 4, 2021
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Starring Charlotte Grandison, the youngest sister, who marries after a whirlwind courtship, to a member of the Hertfordshire aristocracy, and she refuses to knuckle under! Much wordplay & discourse but little action.
The fearsome Lady Olivia puts in an appearance, threatens a certain Somebody with a poinard, hidden in her corset, and the brother is bidden back to Bologna by the Della Poretta family.
Miss Byron, meanwhile, continues to dote on an unavailable individual, yet refuses the overtures of an impressively titled matron for her involvement with the titled son. However, the object of her affections seems to be dependent on her for advice, including his lovelife, so very dispiriting! She returns home to Northamptonshire and the forlorn suitors reappear, still as creepy as ever!
Meanwhile, Sir Charles acts as marital counsellor for the Beauchamp parents and talks his way around a very irritated Lady Beauchamp, stepmother of his best friend, to allow the stepson back into the family fold. Similar peacemaking efforts are applied to his ward's mother and stepfather to allow for Emily's custody issues to be resolved and a healthy communication is encouraged.
Richardson goes on to discuss the idea of "Protestant Nunneries", but more in the idea of co-operative establishments for single women for their individual employment and personal support and nourishment rather than religious institutions.
Another set of nuptials are facilitated with the remarriage of his maternal uncle, Lord W, to a member of the Mansfield clan, which reverses their declining fortunes spectacularly.
The dastardly Sir Hargrave Pollexfen receives his just desserts near Mont Martre but is rescued by everybody's hero! The Grandison cousin is meanwhile discovered to be living incognito, having shacked up with a mistress, and succumbed to the loaded charms of the gaming tables:
"Sharpers have bit his head off, quite close to his shoulders: they have not left it him to carry under his arm, as the honest patron of France did his. (Saint Denis) They lend it him, however, now-and-then to repent with, and curse himself."
There's also a wildly imaginative account of a wintry traverse of the Alps to pass into Italy from France reputed to have been sourced elsewhere! (Letter XXX1X)
The travellers arrive in Bologna and discover the ailing members of the Della Poretta family and start to assist in their recovery.
Starring Charlotte Grandison, the youngest sister, who marries after a whirlwind courtship, to a member of the Hertfordshire aristocracy, and she refuses to knuckle under! Much wordplay & discourse but little action.
The fearsome Lady Olivia puts in an appearance, threatens a certain Somebody with a poinard, hidden in her corset, and the brother is bidden back to Bologna by the Della Poretta family.
Miss Byron, meanwhile, continues to dote on an unavailable individual, yet refuses the overtures of an impressively titled matron for her involvement with the titled son. However, the object of her affections seems to be dependent on her for advice, including his lovelife, so very dispiriting! She returns home to Northamptonshire and the forlorn suitors reappear, still as creepy as ever!
Meanwhile, Sir Charles acts as marital counsellor for the Beauchamp parents and talks his way around a very irritated Lady Beauchamp, stepmother of his best friend, to allow the stepson back into the family fold. Similar peacemaking efforts are applied to his ward's mother and stepfather to allow for Emily's custody issues to be resolved and a healthy communication is encouraged.
Richardson goes on to discuss the idea of "Protestant Nunneries", but more in the idea of co-operative establishments for single women for their individual employment and personal support and nourishment rather than religious institutions.
Another set of nuptials are facilitated with the remarriage of his maternal uncle, Lord W, to a member of the Mansfield clan, which reverses their declining fortunes spectacularly.
The dastardly Sir Hargrave Pollexfen receives his just desserts near Mont Martre but is rescued by everybody's hero! The Grandison cousin is meanwhile discovered to be living incognito, having shacked up with a mistress, and succumbed to the loaded charms of the gaming tables:
"Sharpers have bit his head off, quite close to his shoulders: they have not left it him to carry under his arm, as the honest patron of France did his. (Saint Denis) They lend it him, however, now-and-then to repent with, and curse himself."
There's also a wildly imaginative account of a wintry traverse of the Alps to pass into Italy from France reputed to have been sourced elsewhere! (Letter XXX1X)
The travellers arrive in Bologna and discover the ailing members of the Della Poretta family and start to assist in their recovery.
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