Early life
Where was Samuel Richardson born?
In Derbyshire.
What business did Richardson start in 1719?
His printing activity.
How did Samuel Richardson die?
Of a stroke.
what was the primary objective of Samuel Richardson’s writing?
Moral education.
Why did he use the epistolary form?
To create an intimate relationship between characters and readers.
In which year was Samuel Richardson born?
In 1689.
What kind of book did he compile in 1739?
A manual for letter-writing with examples and model letters for different occasions.
In which year did he die?
In 1761.
Name two of the three fictional characters mentioned who embody the "highest virtues of rectitude, chastity, and benevolence."
Pamela, Clarissa, or Sir Charles Grandison.
Richardson increased this quality—the appearance of being true or real—by adapting his language to the social class of his characters.
Verisimilitude.
What kind of family was he born into?
Into a lower - middle class family.
What was the title of the letter-writing manual published in 1741?
Letters Written to and for Particular Friends on the Most Important Occasions.
How was Pamela received by the public?
Successfully.
What's Pamela about?
This novel tells the story of a servant girl defending her virtue.
Unlike Pamela, which is told almost exclusively by the heroine, this Richardson novel is constructed around letters from four different correspondents.
Clarissa.
Was Richardson highly educated or mostly self-taught?
He was mostly self-taught.
What was Richardson’s first novel?
Pamela.
Where was he buried?
At St. Bride's Church.
List three main topics in Richardson's novels.
Moral value (virtue); social inequality (men-women, masters-servants); psychological conflict; Christian morality.
Richardson is famous for long passages aiming at introspection. What is introspection?
Analysis of feelings and thoughts.
What job did Richardson learn when he moved to London?
A printer.
In which year was Pamela published?
In 1740.
Richardson lived and wrote during this literary period.
In the 18th century / the Enlightenment.
Richardson’s realism focuses mainly on this aspect of life.
Domestic / private life.
Richardson’s narrative technique directly influenced the development of the later literary novel (20th century). What is the name of this novel?
The psychological novel.