Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
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Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel first published in 1740 by the English writer Samuel Richardson. Considered one of the first true English novels, it serves as Richardson's version o
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Illustration from a 1741 pirated edition
Pamela Fainting by Joseph Highmore (April 1743)
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical burlesque novella by English writer Henry Fielding. It was first published in April 174
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
…Pamela's conduct in high life, published 1741 and sometimes attributed to John Kelly (1680?–1751). There were also several satires, the most famous being An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Henry Fielding, published in 1741 under the pseudonym "Mr. Conny Keyber". Shamela portrays the protagonist as an amoral social climber who attempts…
Shamela