Samuel Richardson

Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded

Stella 

mr b makes hardin scott look like the perfect boyfriend. guess pamela has a thing for mastes who kidnap, assault and rape their servants??

camila 

Clare B

Joshua Line

Sabrina Z

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Written in the voice of its low-born heroine, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse.

Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded

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