Pamela (Annotated)

Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is a foundational epistolary novel that dramatizes the trials of a young servant, Pamela Andrews, as she resists the predatory advances of her master, Mr. B. Through letters and journal entries, Richardson gives unusual psychological immediacy to domestic conflict, moral testing, and social aspiration. Published in 1740, the novel helped define the E...