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6 unusual facts about Clarissa


Antoine François Prévost

Translations from Samuel Richardson: Lettres anglaises ou Histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlovie (1751), from Richardson's Clarissa, and Nouvelles lettres anglaises, ou Histoire du chevalier Grandisson (Sir Charles Grandison, 1755).

Emmeline

Emmeline comments on the 18th-century novel tradition, presenting reinterpretations of scenes from famous earlier works, such as Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48).

For example, “Delamere's half-tricking, half-forcing Emmeline into a waiting coach” mirrors a scene from Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747–48).

John Freke

His friendship with Samuel Richardson meant he was one of select group who were able to read the manuscript of Clarissa before it was published.

Laetitia Pilkington

In 1743, she began seeking, on Cibber's advice, subscribers for her Memoirs. Samuel Richardson, who had been a benefactor of hers and who had consulted with her on Clarissa, would not publish the work.

Take a Girl Like You

The plot of Take a Girl Like You also follows traditional realistic conventions and has been compared to the plot of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, published in 1748.


Clarissa Dixon

Clarissa Belknap Dixon (1851 in Hennepin, Indiana – 1916 in Menlo Park, California) was a labor activist, feminist, and bohemian author and poet who lived in Des Moines, Iowa, New York City, Collyer, Kansas, and Menlo Park, California.

Clarissa Scott Delany

Clarissa Scott Delany, nee Clarissa Mae Scott (1901-1927) was an African-American poet, essayist, educator and social worker associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Don Coutts

Clarissa & the Countryman: Series two (x3) and three (x4) Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott travelling around Britain.

Elisha P. Ferry

Elisha Peyre Ferry was born in Monroe County, Michigan, near Detroit, to Peter Ferry and Clarissa Peyre-Ferry, who soon moved to the small town of Waukegan, Illinois, where Peter served as a judge.

Jacob C. Bogart

Bogart was stationed in San Diego where he was in charge of a coak hulk Clarissa Andrews that was anchored in San Diego Bay.

James Clarke Cribb

James Clarke Cribb was born 4 October 1856 at Ipswich, the son of Benjamin Cribb (a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly) and his second wife, Clarissa Foote (the sister of John Clarke Foote).

John Henry Johnstone

Here in any case Johnstone made his first stage appearance, about 1773, as Lionel in Lionel and Clarissa (Charles Dibdin and Isaac Bickerstaffe).

Los Angeles Review of Books

In addition to Lutz, the current editorial staff includes Matthew Specktor, Julie Cline, Evan Kindley, Kate Wolf, Clarissa Romano, and Jonathan Hahn.

Lucy May Barker

At the start of 2011, Barker toured the UK playing Clarissa in The Reluctant Debutante, with Jane Asher, Clive Francis and Belinda Lang.

May Byron

She was born Mary Clarissa Gillington in 1861 at Audlem, Cheshire, the first of four children of John Maurice Gillington and Sarah Dumville Gillington.

Nina Ruge

In the 1999 cinema film Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel (On the Wings of Love) Nina Ruge appeared in the role of Clarissa together with Maximilian Schell, Gudrun Landgrebe and Mathieu Carrière.

Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet

On 2 October 1884 in New York, with disapproval from both families, Leslie married Leonie Blanche Jerome, daughter of Leonard Jerome and Clarissa Hall.

The History of Sir Charles Grandison

The novel incorporates an epistolary format similar to Richardson's previous novels, Clarissa and Pamela.

The Skull Beneath the Skin

Cordelia Gray is engaged by Sir George Ralston, a baronet and World War II hero, to accompany his wife, the acclaimed actress Clarissa Lisle, for a weekend at Courcy Castle on the island of the same name on the Dorset coast.

This is Alice

Phyllis Coates played her mother, Clarissa Mae Holliday, and Alice's father Chet was played by Tommy Farrell.

Truly Blessed

Phyllis Yvonne, Marva King, Mark Philosit, Michelle Kornegay, Annette Hardeman, Jacqueline Gregory, Paula Holloway, Charlene Holloway, Minnie Curry, Terry Price, Darryl Phinnessee, Dorian Holley, Jim Gilstrap, Julia Tiltman Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters, Wendy Fraser, Rosalind Keel, Fred White, Phyllis St James, Portia Griffin, Joey Diggs, Solomon Henderson Jr., Keith Jones, Sheila Lakin, Bridgent Potts, Ron Monroe, John Kee, Andrea Deese, Clarissa Rhodes, Jeanette Taylor - backing vocals

William J. Gilmore

Gilmore was born in Bedford County, Virginia, son of Dr. Eli Gilmore and Clarissa Mosby Clayton, sister of a prominent Mississippi judge, later a member of the Confederate Congress, Alexander Mosby Clayton.


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