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… ’s 1748 novel Clarissa . The book continued Richardson’s didactic intent, already on display in his 1741 Familiar Letters , which offered templates for appropriate written correspondence between intimate friends and relatives. But it … 6 . The epistolary format, with the parallel correspondences of both characters and Lovelace’s practice of intercepting letters, does add a layer to the conflict between the two protagonists. ‘But she was a thief, an impostor, as well as a …
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