Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) is a novel by English writer and printer Samuel Richardson .
An immediate bestseller, the novel was frequently read aloud in villages and at sermons, furthering its success and popularizing the form of the novel for other wri.
Recognized as the first English novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel that takes on the themes made popular in conduct literature, a genre dedicated to educating readers on social norms.
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) is a novel by English writer and printer Samuel Richardson