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Samuel Richardson

1689 - 1761

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Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with their six children, but remarried and had six more children, of whom four daughters reached adulthood, leaving no male heirs to continue the print shop. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Richardson is the 909th most popular writer (up from 994th in 2019), the 848th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Writer.

Samuel Richardson is most famous for his novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, which was published in 1740. The novel is about a fifteen-year-old girl who is kidnapped and held captive by a wealthy man who wants to have sex with her. She resists him for two years, but eventually falls in love with him and they marry.

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Among writers, Samuel Richardson ranks 909 out of 7,302. Before him are Ernest Thompson Seton, Pu Songling, Eleanor Marx, Wilkie Collins, Władysław Tarnowski, and Leconte de Lisle. After him are Adunis, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, H. Rider Haggard, Italo Svevo, Mercè Rodoreda, and MacKenzie Scott.

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Among people born in 1689, Samuel Richardson ranks 3. Before him are Montesquieu, and John V of Portugal. After him are Jacques I, Prince of Monaco, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Zahir al-Umar, Samuel Bellamy, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, Blas de Lezo, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, and Alexis Piron. Among people deceased in 1761, Samuel Richardson ranks 4. Before him are Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Thomas Bayes, and Pieter van Musschenbroek. After him are Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Stephen Hales, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Tokugawa Ieshige, Balaji Baji Rao, Clemens August of Bavaria, Pierre Fauchard, and Tarabai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Richardson ranks 848 out of 8,785. Before him are Wilkie Collins (1824), John Newlands (1837), Cynegils (575), Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), and Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415). After him are Eadwig (940), Sawney Bean (1600), Daniel Rutherford (1749), H. Rider Haggard (1856), Sean Bean (1959), and Charles Frederick Worth (1825).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Richardson ranks 90. Before him are Douglas Adams (1952), James May (1963), Ian McEwan (1948), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Eleanor Marx (1855), and Wilkie Collins (1824). After him are H. Rider Haggard (1856), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), David Irving (1938), and Percy Fawcett (1867).

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