Clarissa

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) was an English writer and printer who is best known for his epistolary novels, including the renowned 'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' (1748). Born to a joiner in Derbyshire, Richardson did not receive a formal university education, instead, he was apprenticed to a printer in London. He flourished in the printing business, establishing himself as a prominen...