During this time, Richardson turned to fiction, publishing his first novel, Pamela or, Virtue Rewarded in 1740, a work now considered the first modern novel. Devastated, Richardson eventually remarried and focused on his career, earning a contract with the House of Commons in 1733 and hiring several apprentices to assist him at his shop. Having married in 1721, Richardson and his wife Martha Wilde suffered the loss of several sons before Martha succumbed to illness in 1732. He established his own shop in 1719 and received his first major contract in 1723, printing a bi-weekly Jacobite newspaper which was soon censored. Born the son of a carpenter, Richardson received a limited education before becoming a printer's apprentice. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an English writer and printer.
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