Pamelas Conduct In High Life Publishd From Her Original Papers To Which Are Prefixd Several Curious Letters Written To The Editor On The Subject By John Kelly

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T113914 Attributed to "one Kelly, styling himself of the Temple," perhaps John Kelly (A. Dobson, 'Samuel Richardson', 1902). A spurious continuation of Richardson's 'Pamela'. A second volume was published later the same year, to accompany the second edition of London: printed for Ward and Chandler; John Wood and Charles Woodward; and Thomas Waller, 1741. vxi[i.e.xvi],312p.; 12°

This volume documents the literary controversy and debate over Samuel Richardson's novel, "Pamela", published in 1741. It brings together and reprints key sources within the debate, including artists such as Francis Hayman, Hubert Gravelot, Joseph Highmore and Philip Mercer.

Examines Samuel Richardson's letters and novels, and explores the interconnection between fiction and correspondence in eighteenth-century literature.