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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Clarissa Darling's best friend Sam from 'Clarissa Explains It All' is all grown up now and you have to see what he looks like!
Clarissa may refer to: Clarissa (given name), a female given name; Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady, a novel by Samuel Richardson; Clarissa, a 1941 German film; Clarissa, a British television drama series based on Richardson's novel; Clarissa, Minnesota, a small city in the United States; 302 Clarissa, an asteroid
The story keeps the direct road, though it moves slowly. But in his last work, the author is much more excursive. There is indeed little in the plot to require attention; the various events, which are successively narrated, being no otherwise connected together, than as they place the character of the hero in some new and peculiar point of view.
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).
No account of this story would give any idea of the profound interest that pervades the work from the first page to the last. —Athenæum A novel of uncommon merit, Sir Walter Scott said he would advise no man to try to read 'Clarissa Harlowe' out loud in company if he wished to keep his character for manly superiority to tears.