Author · United Kingdom · 1689–1761
Samuel Richardson
Epistolary realism where letters turn courtship power and law into public ethics.
Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer most known for his epistolary novels Pamela, Clarissa and The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
Genres
Historical fiction
Letters power and consent in 2026
Samuel Richardson shows how pressure moves through family money and rank and how writing itself becomes evidence. Consent reputation and agency are argued in real time. Read him to track manipulation without fog and to see how narrative form can make or break freedom.
