Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . series of (Familiar Letters, to help thosetoo illiterate to write for themselves,— asort of Servant-Girls Guide,—and the novelwas a result. Richardson was always a diligent worker,a man of thrift and character, whose rise in his profession was well earned. He widened the circle of his friends,and married the daughter of his former employer. He extended hisbusiness connections by printing the Daily Journal, the Daily Gazet-teer, and the Briton. His friendship with the Duke of Whartonwas influential in his advancement. In 1754 he was a
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . series of (Familiar Letters, to help thosetoo illiterate to write for themselves,— asort of Servant-Girls Guide,—and the novelwas a result. Richardson was always a diligent worker,a man of thrift and character, whose rise in his profession was well earned. He widened the circle of his friends,and married the daughter of his former employer. He extended hisbusiness connections by printing the Daily Journal, the Daily Gazet-teer, and the Briton. His friendship with the Duke of Whartonwas influential in his advancement. In 1754 he was appointed t theimportant post of Master of the Stationers Company. During his lastyears he was an invalid, and passed much of his time at his country-seat, reading from his own work to a circle of female admirers. Fewmen have received more adulation of this sort than Richardson; andwhile he had his share of amiable vanity, it is to his credit that heremained in character unsophisticated, kind, and generous. He diedin his home July 4th, 1761. XXI. Samuel Rich vrdson I2226 SAMUEL RICHARDSON As a boy at school Richardson amused his schoolmates by makingup extemporaneous romances; and when but thirteen years old, suchwas his talent as a letter-writer that the village girls employed himto write their love epistles. This is described amusingly in hisautobiography. «As a bashful and not forward boy, I was an early favorite with all theyoung women of taste and reading in the neighborhood. Half a dozen ofthem, when met to work with their needles, used when they got a book theyliked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them; their motherssometimes with them: and both mothers and daughters used to be pleasedwith the observations they put me upon making. I was not more thanthirteen when three of these young women, having a high opinion of my taci-turnity, revealed to me their love secrets, in order to induce me to give themcopies to write after or correct, for answers to thei
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