Clarissa’ is novel written by -

• Clarissa, in full Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady,is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson.
- Among the longest English novels ever written (more than a million words), the book has secured a place in literary history for its tremendous psychological insight।
- Written in the then fashionable epistolary form, its main body consists of the letters of Clarissa Harlowe and her seducer, Lovelace (though there are many more correspondents throughout the novel).

• Important characters of the novel are: 
- Clarissa Harlowe
- Lovelace 
- Belford

• Samuel Richardson was born 1689 & died in 1761 who was an English writer and printer.
- তিনি মূলত epistolary novels ধরনের উপন্যাস রচনা করে বিখ্যাত হয়েছেন। 
- Epistolary novels অনেকতা চিঠির মতন করে লেখা হয়।

• Samuel Richardson's best known three epistolary novels are - 
1. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740),
2. Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and
3.The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

Source: Britannica and An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman.