Status Updates From Clarissa Harlowe; or, The H...

I'm just now realizing they've been using the Julian calendar this whole time! Lovelace starts dating his letters using both calendars, Belford keeps on using only the Julian, and then the final letter is dated only in Gregorian, Samuel Richardson is screwing with me specifically. Anyway this readalong is going to end a week+ earlier than I thought.

No letter today, but meanwhile reading the Haunting of Hill House there was a Clarissa mention (and the professor threatening to read Pamela aloud as an insomnia cure) - I never noticed just how many other books reference Richardson before I started reading this.

Today Clarissa's final letters to her family and friends are sent out, and since they're all along similar lines only some of them are included and the rest are just summaries with short excerpts, makes complete sense - but the letter to Anna Howe, of all people?? Only a summary for Clarissa's final letter to Anna Howe??

How can this book go on and on after Clarissa's death??