LRC EDUCATION: EMPOWER YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Unlike the previous writers of the Augustan Age, Richardson came from a humble background, he was not very educated and, while still very young, he was sent to London to work … Continue reading SAMUEL RICHARDSON (1689-1761)
MOLLY BECOMES A THIEF “I lived two years in this dismal condition, wasting that little I had, weeping continually over my dismal circumstances, and, as it were, only bleeding to … Continue reading Excerpt from Defoe’s “The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders” (1722)
THE GENERAL OUTLINE A New Dinasty on the Throne of Britain: the Hanoverians The Augustan Age falls under the reign of king George I of the House of Hanover. He … Continue reading THE AUGUSTAN AGE (1714-1760)