A virtuous servant girl resists her master's advances through a torrent of letters until he reforms and marries her.
Books mentioned in Pamela (4)
Aesop's Fables by Aesop: “Why, no more nor less, than that I am like the grasshopper in the fable, which I have read of in my lady's book, as follows:--[See the Aesop's Fables which have lately been selected and reformed from those of Sir R. L'Estrange, and the most eminent mythologists.]”
Telemachus by François Fénelon: “What are you reading? Sir, said he, and stammered with the surprise, it is the French Telemachus; for I am about perfecting myself, if I can, in the French tongue.”
The Whole Duty of Man by Richard Allestree: “pray, when you take leave of them, present them with three guineas worth of good books; such as a family bible, a common prayer, a whole duty of man, or any other you think will be acceptable”
Book of Common Prayer: “pray, when you take leave of them, present them with three guineas worth of good books; such as a family bible, a common prayer, a whole duty of man, or any other you think will be acceptable”
Books that mention Pamela (3)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.”
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: “"Are you still reading Pamela?" Eleanor asked the doctor.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “Such works are actually closer to the epistolary form in which a number of the very earliest novels, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, were written.”