id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5790 Clarissa - Wikipedia .html text/html 3527 341 74 Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. Feeling trapped and desperate to regain her freedom, Clarissa continues to communicate with Anna in secret and begins a correspondence with Lovelace, while trying to convince her parents not to force her to marry Solmes. Joseph Leman, a servant of the Harlowes, shouts and makes noise so it may seem like the family has awoken and discovered that Clarissa and Lovelace are about to run away. Miss Clarissa Harlowe: The title character of the novel. Clarissa is a young and virtuous woman who ends up falling victim to Robert Lovelace after he convinces her to run away with him and later rapes her. Margaret Anne Doody, "Disguise and Personality in Richardson's Clarissa", Eighteenth-Century Life n.s. 12, no. Tom Keymer, Richardson's "Clarissa" and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5790.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5790.txt