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A brief Account of the principal Characters throughout the Whole.
M
iss Clarissa Harlowe, a young Lady of great Delicacy; Mistress of all the Accomplishments, natural and acquired, that adorn the Sex; having the strictest Notions of filial Duty.
Robert Lovelace, Esq; a Man of Birth and Fortune: Haughty, vindictive, humourously vain; equally intrepid and indefatigable in the Purfuit of his Pleasures—Making his Addresses to Miss Clarissa Harlowe.
James Harlowe, Esq; the Father of Miss Clarissa, Miss Arabella, and Mr. James Harlowe: Despotic, absolute; and, when offended, not easily forgiving.
Lady Charlotte Harlowe, his Wife, Mistress of fine Qualities, but greatly under the Influence not only of her arbitrary Husband, but of her Son.
James Harlowe, jun. proud, fierce, uncontroulable, and ambitious; jealous of the Favour his Sister Clarissa stood in with the Principals of the Family, and a bitter and irreconcileable Enemy to Mr. Lovelace.
Miss Arabella Harlowe, elder Sister of Miss Clarissa; ill-natured, overbearing, and petulant, envying her Sister, and the more, as
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