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Pamela by Samuel Richardson and the Theme of Confinement

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form of plays), poetry, vignettes or story collections, or biographical (or autobiographical) narratives. Then, along came an unknown English printer named Samuel Richardson, and the style of fiction writing  was changed forever. Richardsons humble, working-class beginnings hardly gave any indication that he was destined to become a popular and revolutionary novelist. Born near Derbyshire in 1689, little  is known about the specifics of Richardsons early life, except that it was one of great poverty and of sparse formal education (Drabble Richardson, Samuel). Religion was apparently always  a strong force in his life, and establishing a strict moral code became a top priority. Richardson always had a great love of books, story-telling, and writing, and at  age 13, had been uniquely employed as the writer of letters for young lovers to exchange (Drabble Richardson, Samuel). It seemed a natural progression for Richardson to become  a printers apprentice, which he did in 1706, and in less than ten years, he had earned the right to be admitted as a freeman of the Stationers Company, or  printers union (Drabble Richardson, Samuel). By 1721, Richardson was prosperous enough to start his own printing company and marry Martha Wilde, the daughter of his former printing master (Drabble  Richardson, Samuel). While his business flourished in the 1720s and 30s, even printing The True Briton, which was considered the bible of the Tory political party, Richardson endured a  series of successive tragedies, such as the loss of all six of his children and the death of his wife, which seriously rocked the printers emotional stability (Drabble Richardson, Samuel).  While perhaps shaken, however, Richardsons moral foundation was never broken, and his belief that people should act virtuously in all situations was unwavering. Two years after the death