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Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded Study Guide & Essays
Samuel Richardson may have based his first novel on the story of a real-life affair between Hannah Sturges, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a coachman, and Sir Arthur Hesilrige, Baronet of Northampton, whom she married in 1725. He certainly based the form of the novel on his own aptitude for…
Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded study guide contains a biography of Samuel Richardson, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
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- Summary and Analysis of Prefatory Material and Letters I through X.
- Summary and Analysis of Letters XI through XVIII.
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What is the social significance of the heroine’s marriage to Mr. B.? Why was it possible for certain male readers to identify with Pamela?
When did Mr. B propose to Pamela and how did her father become poor?
when and where he proposed; how exactly her father became poor
i mean why did she choose to avoid raising conflicts? does it have anything to do with the class she belonged to ?