Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson, (1669-1761). British novelist. He was apprenticed to a printer in 1706 and by 1721 had his own business, later becoming printer to the House of Commons. His novels Pamela (1740-44) and Clarissa (1747-48) were written in the form of a series of letters between the characters. Although popular in England and Europe and greatly copied, they were also parodied because of their moralistic and sentimental heroines.
