Shamela was originally published anonymously on 4 April 1741 and sold for one shilling and sixpence. A second edition came out on 3 November that same year which was partly reimpressed and partly reset where emendations were made.
A pirated edition was printed in Dublin in 1741 as well. Reprint editions have subsequently appeared as texts for academic study.[1]
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The Question and Answer section for Shamela is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The book is narrated by an unnamed narrator in the third-person.
Reverend Williams appears both in Pamela and Shamela but has a completely different personality. In Pamela, Reverend Williams truly loves Pamela and wants to marry her and have an honest relationship while in Shamela he is like Shamela, cunning...
Shamela as a title is significant because this is a satire. Shamela, in contrast to the novel, Pamela, comes to mean shame or sham.... hypocrisy, false piety. Rather than the pure, innocent, and chaste heroine of Richardson's, Pamela, Fielding has...
