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He received little formal education and in 1706 was apprenticed to a printer in the capital. Thirteen years later he set up for himself as a stationer and printer and became one of the leading figures in the London trade . As a printer his output included political writing, such as the Tory periodical The True Briton, the newspapers, Daily Journal (1736–7) and Daily Gazetteer (1738) together with twenty-six volumes of the Journals of the House of Commons and general law printing. He was twice married and had twelve children .  \nHis literary career began when two booksellers proposed that he should compile a volume of model letters for unskilled letter writers. While preparing this, Richardson became fascinated by the project, and a small sequence of letters from a daughter in service, asking her father’s advice when threatened by her master’s advances, formed the germ of Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740–1) . Pamela was a huge success and became something of a cult-novel. By May 1741 it reached fourth edition and it was dramatized in Italy by Goldoni, as well as in England. His masterpiece, Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady, one of the greatest European novels, was published in 1747–8. Richardson’s last novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, appeared in 1753–4 . His writings brought him great personal acclaim and a coterie of devoted admirers who liked to discuss with him the moral aspects of the action in the novels. Samuel Richardson died in 1761 and is buried in St Bride’s Church, London .  \nPETER SABOR is Director of the Burney Centre and Professor of English at McGill University, Montreal. His recent work on Richardson includes, with Thomas Keymer, The Pamela Controversy: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson ’s Pamela, 1740– 1750 (2001) . With Keymer, he is also co-general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the  \nWorks and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, in progress.  \nMARGARET ANNE DOODY, John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature, teaches atthe University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where she is currently Director of the Ph.D. Program. She has written extensively on Richardson and on other eighteenth-century authors, as well as a study of fiction, The True Story of the Novel.  \nSAMUEL RICHARDSON  \nPAMELA;  \nOR, VIRTUE REWARDED  \nEdited by Peter Sabor with an Introduction Margaret A. Doody  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPublished by the Penguin Group  \nPenguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England  \nPenguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA  \nPenguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2  \nPenguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa  \nPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England  \n[www.penguin.com](www.penguin.com)  \nFirst published 1740  \nPublished in the Penguin English Library 1980 Published in Penguin Classics in 1985  \nReprinted with Chronology and updated Further Reading 2003 33  \nThis edition and Notes copyright © Peter Sabor, 1980 Introduction copyright © Margaret A. Doody, 1980 All rights reserved  \nExcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser  \nEISBN: 978–0–141–90770–3  \nCONTENTS  \nChronology  \nIntroduction by Margaret A. Doody Further Readin","cbCaik3nyNIflaat","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik3nyNIflaat","pdf",2550111,591,"English","# Contents\n## Chronology\n## Introduction by Margaret A. Doody\n## Further Reading\n## Note on the Text\n## Pamela\n## Notes","[{\"question\":\"How did Samuel Richardson begin writing Pamela?\",\"answer\":\"A bookseller proposed that Richardson compile model letters for unskilled writers. 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