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Samuel Richardson (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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In addition to the three novels on which his fame and reputation rest, Samuel Richardson’s best-known work is a collection of fictitious letters which constitutes a kind of eighteenth century book of etiquette, social behavior, manners, and mores: Letters Written to and for Particular Friends, on the Most Important Occasions (1741), customarily referred to as Familiar Letters. It had been preceded, in 1733, by a handbook of instruction concerning the relationship between apprentices and master printers, which grew out of a letter Richardson...

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