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...Past editions have featured Young Boy Dancing Group, a provocative troupe who tumbled through the forest with illuminated laser-pointers in their rectums, and Z Tye Richardson, whose “Trans Baptism”, conducted...
...His dislike of Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela inspired his own first two novels, Shamela and Joseph Andrews. His surname is the same as that of the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary. 5....
...Samuel Richardson’s 1740 novel Pamela tells of a young housemaid who is pursued, harassed, abducted and almost raped by her employer before her written record of her tribulations reforms him and the two...
...When Samuel Richardson’s 18th-century work of epistolary fiction Pamela was read aloud to illiterate villagers, the uplifting ending prompted church bells to ring out across the English countryside in celebration...
...Unfaithfully Yours, by Nigel Williams, Corsair, RRP£18.99, 320 pages The epistolary novel has a long and distinguished history: Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1748) and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons...
...Service, HM Revenue and Customs Peter Winslow, chief executive, BGL Group, for services to financial services OFFICER, OBE Zahoor Ahmed, chairman, Gifts International, for services to international trade Pamela...
...Jeremy Richardson, formerly chief executive, Injured Jockey’s Fund, the housing group. Mark Ridgway, MD, Group Rhodes, the machinery company....
...Indeed, many of the first novels in English are epistolary novels constructed of letters, such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740), where letters between characters offer an illusion of a confidential exchange...
...Pamela from North Carolina, said she was a lifelong Republican who had voted for Nixon and both Bushes....
...Colley’s problem, however, is that Elizabeth Marsh does not make a very plausible victim: she is less Richardson’s Pamela, more Thackeray’s Becky Sharp....
...Those who condemned the practice – including the New Mexico-based Hollywood personalities Ali MacGraw and Pamela Anderson – did so on other grounds, those of animal rights....
...A Life of Picasso: Volume III: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 By John Richardson Jonathan Cape £30, 555 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Gossipy, profound, insightful and non-judgmental, Richardson is terrific...
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