Publisher's Synopsis
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel with the aid of English creator Samuel Richardson, a singular which became first posted in 1740. Considered the primary actual English novel, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature approximately marriage. Pamela tells the story of a 15-yr-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose company, Mr. B, a wealthy landowner, makes unwanted and inappropriate advances closer to her after the demise of his mother. Pamela strives to reconcile her robust non secular schooling along with her desire for the approval of her employer in a sequence of letters and, later within the novel, journal entries all addressed to her impoverished mother and father. After various unsuccessful tries at seduction, a chain of sexual attacks, and a prolonged length of kidnapping, the rakish Mr. B eventually reforms and makes Pamela a honest proposal of marriage. In the radical's 2d component Pamela marries Mr. B and attempts to acclimatize to her new position in upper-magnificence society.
