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Samuel Richardson may have based his first novel on the story of a real-life affair between Hannah Sturges, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a coachman, and Sir Arthur Hesilrige, Baronet of Northampton, whom she married in 1725. He certainly based the form of the novel on his own aptitude for letter-writing: always prolific in private correspondence, he had recently tried his hand at writing fictionalized letters for publication, during which effort he had conceived the idea of a series of related letters all tending to the revelation of one story. He began work on Pamela on November 10, 1739 and completed it on January 10, 1740.
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson was born into relative poverty as one of nine children in the midland country of Derbyshire in England. The Richardson family moved to East London in 1700, and around this time, Samuel received a brief grammar-school education.
The publication of Pamela was a massive cultural event, inspiring praise and condemnation, imitations and parodies. Richardson’s first follow-up was a sequel, Pamela in her Exalted Condition (1741), which he designed primarily to override the unauthorized sequels afloat in the marketplace. His other major works were the novels Clarissa (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753).
. Toward the end of Richardson’s lifetime, and for some decades after his death, he commanded a degree of international prestige unparalleled by any contemporary English writer. His novels were translated into all the major European languages and continued to inspire imitations and theatrical adaptations until the end of the century.
