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Title: Remarks on Clarissa (1749)

Author: Sarah Fielding

Release Date: January 8, 2009 [EBook #27744]

Language: English

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~REMARKS~
~ON~
~_CLARISSA_,~

Addressed to the AUTHOR.

Occasioned by some critical Conversations on the
CHARACTERS and CONDUCT of that Work.

~WITH~

Some Reflections on the Character and Behaviour
of PRIOR'S ~_EMMA_~.

~_LONDON:_~
Printed for _J. Robinson_ in _Ludgate-street_.

M,DCC,XLIX.

[Price One Shilling.]

REMARKS ON _CLARISSA_, &c.

~_SIR_,~

Perhaps an Address of this Nature may appear very unaccountable, and
whimsical; when I assure you, my Design is fairly to lay before you all
the Criticisms, as far as I can remember them, that I have heard on your
History of _Clarissa_; from the Appearance of the two first Volumes, to
the Close of the Work. I have not willingly omitted any one Objection I
have heard made to your favourite Character, from her first Appearance
in the World; nor, on the contrary, have I either diminished or added to
the favourable Construction put on her Words or Actions. If the Grounds
for the Objections are found to be deducible from the Story, I would
have them remain in their full Force; but if the Answers her Admirers
have given to those Objections are found to result from an impartial and
attentive perusal of the Story, I would not have her deny'd the Justice
they have done