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
First edition title page
Illustration from a 1741 pirated edition
Pamela Fainting by Joseph Highmore (April 1743)
Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Childr
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
…of Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Richardson published a sequel, Pamela in her Exalted Condition (1742). He revisited the theme of the rake in his Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (1748), and sought to create a "male Pamela" in Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Since Ian Watt discussed it in The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe…
The villain, Robert Lovelace, abducting Clarissa Harlowe
Picture from "Lettres angloises, ou histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlove" (1751)