01926cam a22003253u 4500 30962 UtSlPG 20260610133715.0 m cr n 260607r2010||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2010 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Apology_for_the_Life_of_Mrs._Shamela_Andrews Release date is 2010-01-14 Produced by Michael Roe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews" by Henry Fielding is a satirical novella published in 1741. This sharp parody attacks Samuel Richardson's popular novel "Pamela" by revealing its heroine as a scheming imposter. Through fake letters, Fielding transforms Richardson's virtuous servant girl into Shamela—a cunning prostitute's daughter who manipulates her master into marriage. The work mocks Richardson's moral messages about female chastity as commodity and exposes what Fielding saw as hypocrisy beneath the original's surface, rewriting the beloved tale through a deforming magnifying glass. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Pamela Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 -- Parodies, imitations, etc. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30962 71808 71808