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Sir Charles Grandison:


Subject Literature » Victorian Literature

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405151191.2007.x


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novel by Samuel Richardson (1753–4). The eponymous hero, a pattern of virtue, is mentioned in Charlotte’s letter which accompanied the chapters of “Ashworth” which she sent to Hartley Coleridge, and in the first chapter of that unfinished novel. Sir Charles was much admired in the eighteenth century, but ridiculed for the cardboard nature of his virtue in the nineteenth. The tone of Charlotte’s references, here and in The Professor (ch. 24), suggest Charlotte took a typical nineteenth-century view of the book, which has not regained favor in our own times, unlike Clarissa and Pamela . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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