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Correspondence of Richardson's Final Years (1755-1761)

Correspondence of Richardson's Final Years (1755-1761)

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Book 11

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ISBN10: 0521831881
ISBN13: 9780521831888
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 17 2019
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was a prominent eighteenth-century printer and businessman as well as an important and influential English novelist. He was also a prolific letter writer. This volume in the first ever full edition of Richardson's correspondence offers a fascinating glimpse of the writer in his final years - at the height of his professional powers but facing the challenging circumstances of physical decline and commercial conflict. The collection of miscellaneous letters addresses a variety of issues ranging from details of Richardson's printing operation to his mentorship of women writers including Sarah Fielding, Anna Meades and Frances Sheridan. Other correspondents of note include Samuel Johnson, Meta Klopstock, Thomas Sheridan and Tobias Smollett. Taken together this series of letters draws an intimate picture of Richardson's professional and personal circles as they exchange family gossip, business advice, literary anecdotes and news of the day.

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