'I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my virtue is in danger.'Fifteen-year-old ...

This 1989 volume was created to mark the three-hundredth anniversary of Samuel Richardson's birth...

Frances Burney (1752-1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her...

Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney 1752-1840 was also a prolific writer of journals a...

In the eighteenth century, Shakespeare became indisputably the most popular English dramatist. Pu...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in liter...

Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a land...

Thanks to its tightly paced, intricately plotted narrative and its astute psychological character...

Since the publication of his novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded in 1740, Samuel Richardson's place ...

In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme...

Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a land...

Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she was eleven, to 1793, when she was sev...