FIRST EDITION AND SECOND EDITIONS: Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the most Important Concerns of Private Life. And particularly showing, The Distresses that may attend the Misconduct both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage
1748
Published in instalments between 1748-49, Clarissa’s 7 volumes are considered Samuel Richardson's finest work, devoured and despised in equal measure by many, including the voracious early novel-reader and critic, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Written in the then fashionable epistolary form, the novel’s main body consists of the letters of Clarissa Ha… Read more…
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