Pamela, Shamela, and the Politics of the Pamela Vogue
There are Swarms of Moral Romances. One, of late Date, divided the World into such opposite Judgments, that some extolled it to the Stars, whilst others treated it with Contempt. Whence arose, particularly among the Ladies, two different Parties, Pamelists and Antiparnelists. ... Some look upon this young Virgin as an Example for Ladies to follow; nay, there have been those, who did not scruple to recommend this Romance from the Pulpit. Others, on the contrary, discover in it, the Behaviour of an hypocritical, crafty Girl, in her Courtship; who understands the Art of bringing a Man to her Lure.'
Masters and Servants: Political Discourse in Richardson's A Collection of Moral Sentiments
1 Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to be written by Himself, 2 vols (London, 1766), 1:208. 2 Pierre-Augustin Carón de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Seville, act 1 , scene 2 (Paris: Éditions Gamier Frères, 1964), p. 41. 3 See Margaret Anne Doody, "Richardson's Politics," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2 (1990), 1 1323. Doody links Richardson ingeniously to the Tories against George u and Walpole, and suggests
The incidence of dead and dying fish in the Moray Firth, September 1963
Dead and dying fish were reported from the Moray Firth during a period of 15 days in September 1963. The initial mortalities were in the inner Firth, but they later spread outwards, especially eastwards along the southern shores of the Firth. Mass mortalities of the lugworm (Arenicola marina) also occurred in Scottish waters in 1962 and 1963, and at Balintorein Easter Ross fish and lugworm mortalities were contemporary.