Richardson was born in Derbyshire, in His father was a joiner (a type of carpenter) and his family were farmers. When he was young, he moved to London and there he started working as a printer. At the age 51, he turned novelist. In 1740 he published “Pamela or virtue rewarded” an epistolary novel about a servant girl who is perdecuted by her master. His other most popular work is “Clarissa”. He died in London, in 1761.

Samuel Richardson’s first work of fiction. It’s an epistolary novel, that is one written in letters; most of the letters are written by the protagonist, Pamela Andrews. It was the first example of a best-seller in the history of English Literature. The book was soon translated into all the major languages. Carlo Goldoni wrote two comediesafter Richardson’s novel: Pamela Nubile Pamela Maritata

Epistolary novel was introduced by Richardson This novel combined Urgency and direct speech accurance and detailed description of people object and place of the novel The main objective of Richardson was that the letter written by other people become lively and dramatic, sometimes the epistolaries were hidden stolen or forged

A poor fifteen-year-old girl dares to resist her master’s improper sexual advances, and does so with a sense of the moral value of her resistance. He reflected in his novels the rise to power of the new mercantile Protestant middle class. In an historical prospective, Pamela anticipates the era of the French Revolution and of Romanticism.

Pamela has been the servant girl of Lady B. for many years. Lady B. dies, and her son, Mr B., offers to let her remain in the household, and Pamela accepts with gratitude. Mr B. intends to seduce her. He then offers send her home to her parents, but the man, drives her instead to Mr B.’s country house, where she is prisoner. Pamela resist all of her master’s advances until Mr B. asks her to marry him. The second part of the book shows Pamela and Mr B.’s married life.