Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family by Samuel Richardson - ISBN: 9780521872737
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Secrets of a novelist’s rise revealed through intimate letters and friendships.

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  • Hardcover

    434 pages

  • Release Date

    19 December 2013

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Summary

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) was an established master printer when, at the age of 51, he published his first novel, Pamela, and immediately became one of the most influential and admired writers of his time. Not only were all Richardson’s novels written in epistolary form: he was also a prolific letter-writer himself. This volume in the first ever full edition of Richardson’s correspondence includes his letters to and from Aaron Hill, the poet, dramatist and entrepreneur (1685–1750). Hill w…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780521872737
ISBN-10:0521872731
Author:Samuel Richardson, Christine Gerrard
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:434
Release Date:19 December 2013
Weight:860g
Dimensions:237mm x 158mm x 30mm
Series:The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
About The Author

Samuel Richardson

Christine Gerrard is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is the author of The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Poetry, Politics and National Myth, 1725–1743 (1994), Aaron Hill: The Muses’s Projector (2003), The Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (2006) and co-editor with David Fairer of Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (2002).

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