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Samuel Richardson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Samuel Richardson was born in 1689, the son of a Derbyshire joiner and a pious mother. As a boy, his thoughtful and serious nature would have recommended him for the church, but his parents could not afford the requisite education. Instead, after moderate schooling, he was apprenticed to a London printer, John Wilde. He proved a conscientious worker for a demanding master and in due time reaped his reward by marrying his employer’s daughter and succeeding to the business. By dint of hard work and honesty, his became one of the most prosperous and sought-after publishing concerns in...

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