Pamela, or Virtue rewarded; in a series of letters, from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: designed to inculcate the principles of virtue and religion in the youth of both sexes. A narrative, which has its foundation in truth, and which is entirely divested of all those images which, in too many pieces calculated for amusement only, tend to inflame the minds they should instruct
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761