WorkSamuel Richardson

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (London: S. Richardson, 1748)

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) · London: S. Richardson, 1748

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Documented 1829

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to George T. Davis

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“I will tell you about Lovelace. His character in the book is shown out to the eye gradually and with great skill...”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hudspeth identified Robert Lovelace as the principal male character in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.