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… Image Joseph Constantine Stadler, 'Mr Richardson ... reading to his Friends', © National Portrait gallery, NPG D5810, 1804. Image Thomas Cook, Daniel Dodd, ‘A … most intimate forms of experience, affect and connection. 9 Some of the most popular epistolary novels of the time, from Richardson ’s Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa (1748) to Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778), apart from … their writings in front of an audience, even sometimes prior to publication. Such was the case, in particular, of Samuel Richardson , who enjoyed reading his own novels to a circle of close friends including several women, as …
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