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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 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
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).
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. [3] 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]
Grace Harlowe is the protagonist and eponym of four series of books for girls, published by Altemus [1] between 1910 and 1924. At least some volumes were reprinted by Saalfield Publishing . The High School Girls Series, College Girls Series, Grace Harlowe Overseas Series , and Grace Harlowe Overland Riders Series were written by Josephine Chase ...
To read the Percy Jackson books in order and get his full story, you’ll want to start with the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, move on to The Heroes of Olympus series and finish with The ...
A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded showing Mr. B intercepting Pamela's first letter home to her mother. Pamela Andrews is a pious, virtuous fifteen-year-old, the daughter of impoverished labourers, who works for Lady B as a maid in her Bedfordshire estate.