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Lady Charlotte Harlowe: Clarissa's mother; James Harlowe Jr.: Clarissa's brother, bitter enemy of Robert Lovelace. Miss Arabella Harlowe: Clarissa's older sister; John Harlowe: Clarissa's uncle (her father's elder brother) Antony Harlowe: Clarissa's uncle (her father's younger brother) Roger Solmes: A wealthy man whom Clarissa's parents wish ...
Samuel Richardson used "haughty, gallant, gay Lothario" as the model for the self-indulgent Robert Lovelace in his novel Clarissa (1748), and Calista suggested the character of Clarissa Harlowe. [4] Edward Bulwer-Lytton used the name allusively in his 1849 novel The Caxtons ("And no woman could have been more flattered and courted by Lotharios ...
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761 [1]) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).
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Clarissa is a 1991 British period drama television miniseries starring Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham and Lynsey Baxter. It aired on BBC2 in three episodes between 27 November and 11 December 1991. Based on the 1748 novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson , it follows a virtuous young woman who is oppressed by her ambitious family and a rake who becomes ...
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, a small farming community. [4] She was named after the titular character of Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa. Her father was Captain Stephen Barton, a member of the local militia and a selectman who influenced his daughter's patriotism and humanitarianism. [2]
women on its “2010 Power Women 100” list and found that, on average, companies in the group outperformed their industries by 15 percent and the overall market by 28 percent.18 A study in Finland on large firms found that those with women CEOs were, on average, about 10 percent more profitable than corresponding companies with men CEOs.19
Clarissa later falls for Jarrett Morgan , who turns out to be her presumed-dead husband Baxter. While the original focus was on the Romeo and Juliet style love story of Tyler and Julie, the bulk of the storyline quickly switched to Trey and Sloane whose 1984 wedding was filmed on location at the Jefferson Memorial.