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Clarissa

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Clarissa's grandfather dies and leaves her, the youngest female, a large estate (compared to others) because he liked her the most. The family realise that she needs to be married off to a man good enough to run such an estate and who would be great to have connections with, so they decide on Roger Solmes, who Clarissa despises. As this is happening, Lovelace (a man of questionable standards) declares interest in Clarissa and leaves her sister, Bella, to seduce her which ends in a fight to the death with the eldest brother, James - Lovelace wins, injuring James. At Clarissa's refusal to marry Roger Solmes her family decide to lock her in the house until she complies but she manages to sneak out secret messages to her dearest friend, Anna.Clarissa Or A History Of A Young Lady was Samuel Richardson's last novel and told entirely by letters between various characters.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })It's also the longest novel in the English language (making it number five behind four French novels). Published in 1747-8 and part of the public domain can be read here for free.There was a television adaption in 1991 starring Sean Bean as Lovelace and Saskia Wickham as Clarissa.Not related to the Web Comic of the same name.
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 Abhorrent Admirer: Roger Solmes, the man the family wants to pair Clarissa up with. He is the full package: not only considered unattractive by the object of his admiration, but also selfish, greedy, and bent on not taking no for an answer.
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 Abduction Is Love
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 Abduction Is Love: That's how Lovelace does it.
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 Abusive Parents: Mr Harlowe was intended as a father who used his daughter's duty to be obedient without upholding his duties not to be an evil dictator. His abuse was probably considered something commonplace, but sad and cringe-worthy. Mrs Harlowe may have been intended as a victim, but to a modern reader, she often seems like a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds or a Wangsty Manipulative Bastard, and with her obsession with getting obeyed by her daughter and pleasing her husband, she sometimes comes across as a plain Troubled Abuser.
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