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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748.
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 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]
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
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!
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).
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.
Here, we follow the story of a young Eritrean woman who crossed mountains, oceans and deserts to escape the small, secretive East African nation. This series is based on research by the Overseas Development Institute, Journeys to Europe , was produced by PositiveNegatives , and was animated by The Huffington Post.