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en-wikipedia-org-1745		Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6200	594	73	Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel first published in 1740 by English writer Samuel Richardson. Since Ian Watt discussed it in The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding in 1957, literary critics and historians have generally agreed that Pamela played a critical role in the development of the novel in English.[1] A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded showing Mr. B intercepting Pamela's first letter home to her mother. Richardson responded to some of these criticisms by revising the novel for each new edition; he also created a "reading group" of such women to advise him. "The Place of Sally Godfrey in Richardson's Pamela." Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson, edited by David Blewett, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1745.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1745.txt