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Title: An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews

Author: Conny Keyber

Release Date: January 14, 2010 [EBook #30962]

Language: English

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AN
APOLOGY
FOR THE
LIFE
OF
Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS.

(Price One Shilling and Six-Pence)

AN
APOLOGY
FOR THE
LIFE
OF
Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS.

In which, the many notorious FALSHOODS and MISREPRSENTATIONS of a
Book called

_PAMELA_,

Are exposed and refuted; and all the matchless ARTS of that young
Politician, set in a true and just Light.

Together with

A full Account of all that passed between her and Parson _Arthur
Williams_; whose Character is represented in a manner something
different from that which he bears in _PAMELA_. The whole being exact
Copies of authentick Papers delivered to the Editor.

Necessary to be had in all FAMILIES.

By Mr. _CONNY KEYBER_.

_LONDON_:

Printed for A. Dodd, at the _Peacock_, without _Temple-bar_.
M. DCC. XLI.

[Illustration]

To Miss _Fanny_, _&c._

MADAM,

It will be naturally expected, that when I write the Life of
_Shamela_, I should dedicate it to some young Lady, whose Wit and
Beauty might be the proper Subject of a Comparison with the Heroine
of my Piece. This, those, who see I have done it in prefixing your
Name to my Work, will much more confirmedly expect me to do; and,
indeed, your Character would enable me to run some Length into a
Parallel, tho' you, nor any one else, are at all like the matchless
_Shamela_.

You see, Madam, I have some Value for your Good-nature, when in a
Dedication, which is properly a Panegyrick, I speak against, not for
you; but I remember it is a Life which I am presenting you, and why
should I expose my Veracity to any Hazard in the Fron