Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill family

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Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill family

Samuel Richardson ; edited by Christine Gerrard

(The Cambridge edition of the works and correspondence of Samuel Richardson / general editors, Thomas Keymer, Peter Sabor, . The Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Samuel Richardson ; 1)

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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The correspondence of Samuel Richardson with Aaron Hill and the Hill family

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an established master printer when, at the age of 51, he published his first novel, Pamela, and immediately became one of the most influential and admired writers of his time. Not only were all Richardson's novels written in epistolary form: he was also a prolific letter-writer himself. This volume in the first ever full edition of Richardson's correspondence includes his letters to and from Aaron Hill, the poet, dramatist and entrepreneur (1685-1750). Hill was Richardson's earliest literary friend and advisor as he embarked on a new career as a novelist. This correspondence offers fascinating insight into the compositional processes not just of the two Pamela novels, but of Richardson's later novels Clarissa and The History of Sir Charles Grandison. The volume also contains Richardson's correspondence with Hill's three literary daughters, which forms an invaluable chapter in the history of women's writing and literary criticism.

Table of Contents

  • General editors' preface
  • Chronology
  • List of abbreviations
  • General introduction
  • Richardson's correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill family
  • Appendices.

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