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* Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森 Life Experience 1689, born in Derbyshire. 1707, apprenticed to a printer in London. 1720, successful as a printer. 1721, married Martha Wilde. 1731, his wife died. 1733, married Elizabeth Leake. 1740, Pamela, or ，Virtue Rewarded 1747-1948 , Clarissa Harlowe 1753-1754，Sir Charles Grandison 1761, died from a paralytic stroke. Brief Introduction Samuel Richardson, novelist, is often called the founder of the English domestic novel(英国家庭小说）.His type of novel is called the epistolary novel(书信体小说）, i.e. stories told in a series of letters,which had much influence on Europe. Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire in 1689, the son of a London joiner (木匠). He received little formal education, although his family had hoped that he would become a priest（神父）. Due to the lack of means, in 1707 he was apprenticed to a printer in London. Thirteen years later he set up his own shop as a stationer and printer and became one of the leading figures in the London trade. In 1739, he began to write a series of letters, which could be published as models for people. Richardson had married his masters daughter, Martha Wilde, and they had six children. Sadly, she and all their children died. He married again, and had six children with Elizabeth Leake, and although two of them also died of childhood illness, four survived.  Major Works Pamela, or ，Virtue Rewarded Clarissa Harlowe Sir Charles Grandison Pamela （帕米拉） 又名Virtue, or Rewarded : In a series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents 《贞洁得报：一个漂亮姑娘写给父母的几封信》,published in 1740. ★ The first English psycho-analytical novel, which has a great effect on people contemporary . Main story It tells the story of a beautiful but poor 15-year old servant-maid named Pamela Andrews whose master, Mr. B, a nobleman, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother whose maid she was since the age of 12. Mr. B is infatuated with her, first by her lo