Language In Clarissa, Evelina And Pride And Prejudice

(Master Printer 35) . Richardson's participation in
printing both sides of political issues of his day
affected his personal reflections on society, according
to Sale. If this is true, then one can reasonably
extrapolate that his printing of the Journals with their
inclusions of inheritance laws also affected his personal
reflections regarding those matters.
Richardson was aware of the effect of inheritance
practices in daily life. He was sensitive to the
opinions of women of his own class and of the nobility.
He would have been concerned and involved with the lives
of his daughters and with the young women who
corresponded with him. He solicited their advice
regarding his writing. Eaves and Kimpel point out that
Richardson "practiced the art of making his events
convincing in terms of the fiction itself, though he also
adhered to the more conventional doctrine of realism,
portraying only events which could easily have occurred
in everyday life" (238). Ultimately, one cannot print
such a body of legal texts, especially important
documents that needed careful attention to detail like
the Journals, without becoming intimately involved with
the subject matter.