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Richardson, Samuel
(1689-1761) British writer. Samuel Richardson is famous for his novels "Pamela" (1740) and "Clarisssa" (1747-1748). There is some debate about whether he or Henry Fielding is the founder of the English novel.
"O, Soften him! or harden me!": Childbirth, Torture, and Technology in Richardson's Pamela
At the Genders On-Line Journal, an essay from Bonnie Blackwell's book "'Strict Examinations': Medicine and the Female Body in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel."