FTP, identify this epistolary novel about the "history of a young lady," the 2nd work of Samuel Richardson.
This work's villain plans to rape Anna, her mother, and her maidservant on their voyage to the Isle of Wight. In the last of the protagonist's letters, which is found thirty years after her death among the personal effects in her brother's estate by the executor of his will, she begs her cousin the Colonel not to avenge her death; a concluding monologue attributed to Dame Belford notes that he did anyway. The conflict begins when the protagonist's family betrothe her to Mr. Solmes, despite her protests and those of Morden. To escape their tyranny, she takes up correspondence with mysterious suitor, who takes her to a brothel, drugs her with laudanum, rapes her, and offers to marry her, but she refuses Robert Lovelace and dies slowly of shame. FTP, identify this epistolary novel about the "history of a young lady," the 2nd work of Samuel Richardson.
This work's villain plans to rape Anna, her mother, and her maidservant on their voyage to the Isle of Wight.
{Clarissa}, or, the History of a Young Lady