TY - BOOK AU - Richardson,Samuel TI - Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded AV - PR PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Didactic fiction KW - England -- Fiction KW - Epistolary fiction KW - Master and servant -- Fiction KW - Kidnapping victims -- Fiction KW - Virtue -- Fiction KW - Women household employees -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela;_or,_Virtue_Rewarded; Release date is 2004-07-01; Tapio Riikonen and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6124 ER -