15 Facts About Clarissa

Clarissa insists that she dislikes Lovelace, but Arabella grows jealous of Lovelace's interest in the younger girl.

The entire Harlowe family is in favour of her marrying Roger Solmes, however Clarissa finds Solmes to be unpleasant company and does not wish to marry him, either.

Clarissa's is kept at many lodgings, including unknowingly a brothel, where the women are disguised as high-class ladies by Lovelace so as to deceive Clarissa.

Clarissa commits forgery to put an end to the communication between them.

Clarissa's accuses him of deceiving and unlawfully detaining her and insists that he set her free.

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Clarissa continues to claim that the impersonators really were his family members and that his crime was simply one of desperate passion.

Clarissa tries to convince her to marry him, alternating between threats and professions of love.

Lovelace is forced to concede that Clarissa's virtue remains untarnished, but he begins to convince himself that the "trial" was not properly conducted.

Since Clarissa was drugged at the time, she could neither consent nor refuse.

Clarissa's becomes dangerously ill from the stress, rarely eating, convinced that she will die soon.

Clarissa's appoints him executor of her will as she puts all of her affairs in order to the alarm of the people around her.

In one of the many letters sent to Lovelace, he writes, "if the divine Clarissa asks me to slit thy throat, Lovelace, I shall do it in an instance".

Morden, Clarissa dies in the full consciousness of her virtue and trusting in a better life after death.

Clarissa responds that he is not able to accept threats against himself and arranges an encounter with Col.

Clarissa is generally regarded by critics to be among the masterpieces of eighteenth-century European literature.