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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    November 2025
    December 2014
    ISBN:
    9781139016186
    9780521832182
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139016186
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.7kg, 336 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
    Collection:
    The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (10)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
    Collection:
    The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (10)
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    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) was a highly regarded printer and influential novelist when he produced his final work of fiction, The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Like his other novels, it was written in epistolary form, reflecting his lifelong interest in letter writing and the letter as a genre. Covering the period 1750–1754, many of these fully annotated letters are published from manuscript for the first time, or have been restored to their complete original form. Recording Richardson's relationships with leading cultural figures including Samuel Johnson, Colley Cibber and Elizabeth Carter, the volume reveals his support for other authors while struggling to complete his own 'story of a Good Man'. This publishing saga also incorporates Richardson's responses to the Irish piracy of his novel, and his exchanges with anonymous fans, including those who attacked the novel's tolerance for Catholicism and those who pleaded for a sequel.

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