An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Henry Fielding
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"An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews" by Henry Fielding is a satirical novella published in 1741. This sharp parody attacks Samuel Richardson's popular novel "Pamela" by revealing its heroine as a scheming imposter. Through fake letters, Fielding transforms Richardson's virtuous servant girl into Shamela—a cunning prostitute's daughter who manipulates her master into marriage. The work mocks Richardson's moral messages about female chastity as commodity and exposes what Fielding saw
as hypocrisy beneath the original's surface, rewriting the beloved tale through a deforming magnifying glass. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 |
|---|---|
| Title | An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Apology_for_the_Life_of_Mrs._Shamela_Andrews |
| Credits |
Produced by Michael Roe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Pamela |
| Subject | Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 -- Parodies, imitations, etc. |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 30962 |
| Release Date | Jan 14, 2010 |
| Last Update | Jan 6, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 598 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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