Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… well into the eighteenth century and are subtly conveyed in Samuel Richardson ’s celebrated 1748 epistolary novel Clarissa, Or, the History of a Young Lady , which has been characterised as ‘a tragedy of solitude, inarticulacy and deceit’. 8 Like friendship, solitude in the troubled world of Clarissa, did not follow its expected course. Throughout the novel, but especially at the start, Clarissa found comfort in her private closet and in writing to her friends, especially her confidante, Anna Howe. Her …
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