Clarissa Harlowe, the heroine of one of Richardson's novels, exhibiting a female character which, as described by him, is pronounced to be “one of the brightest triumphs in the whole range of imaginative literature,” is described by Stopford Brooke “as the pure and ideal star of womanhood.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Clarétie, Jules * Clark, Sir Andrew