A long-standing business associate and friend to Samuel Richardson, Rivington founded one of the most important family bookselling concerns of the late eighteenth century. Among other significant works, his firm published the first volume of Pamela (1740-1).

English antiquary, supporter of the French Revolution, and vegetarian activist. Ritson challenged editors of early English poetry, firmly believing in maintaining textual accuracy in the editing of early texts. As a publisher of children's songs, verses, and fairy stories, Ritson is best remembered for his Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads Now Extant Relative to That Outlaw.

Author of a number of tracts on the Moravians, Rimius translated Stinstra's A Pastoral Letter against Fanaticism into English.

James Ridley is remembered mainly for his Tales of the Genii, published in 1764 under the pen name Sir Charles Morell.

Samuel Richardson's daughter with his wife Elizabeth. She married Richard Crowther.

Richardson is known as the inventor of the epistolary novel, which he developed while working on a collection of model letters, Letters Written to and for Particular Friends, on the Most Important Occasions, better known as Familiar Letters (1741). His three most famous works are all named after the sentimental heroes or heroines whose stories they relate. Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740-1) tells of a virtuous servant who holds out against her employer's immodest advances until ultimately he rewards her with marriage.

Samuel Richardson's daughter with his wife Elizabeth. She married Philip Ditcher.

Samuel Richardson's daughter with his wife Elizabeth. She married Edward Brigden.

Daughter of Samuel Richardson's master during his apprenticeship, she became in 1721 his first wife. She died in 1731.

Samuel Richardson's second wife, whom he married in 1733.