Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761

About this book

"Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson is an epistolary novel published in 1740. Through letters and journal entries, fifteen-year-old maidservant Pamela Andrews recounts her employer Mr. B's persistent unwanted advances after his mother's death. Torn between her religious principles and desire for approval, Pamela faces seduction attempts, assaults, and kidnapping as the wealthy landowner pursues her. This groundbreaking work explores virtue, class barriers, and the troubling boundaries between aggression and courtship in eighteenth-century England.

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Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%3B_or,_Virtue_Rewarded

Author
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
Reading level
A2 · Elementary
Language
English

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