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Pamela Andrews is a lively, clever, pretty, and virtuous servant-girl, age 15, in the county of Bedfordshire in England. For the past three years, she has served as waiting-maid to the kindly Lady B., who unfortunately has just died. Lady B.’s son, the twenty-something Squire B., becomes Master of the country household. After a period of mourning in which he decorously restrains himself from making any advances on his late mother’s favorite, Mr. B. begins flirting with Pamela incessantly. In letters to her parents, who are destitute through no fault of their own, Pamela reports her Master’s attempts and vows that she will suffer any injury or social penalty rather than sacrifice her chastity. Her parents encourage this devotion to her…

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Posted By amanda e #228651 at Feb 05, 2012 8:57 AM

would i see everything i want

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Posted By marin t #174621 at Mar 17, 2011 2:50 PM

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?

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Posted By alexandria s #168531 at Feb 09, 2011 5:54 PM

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

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