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Title: Pamela Censured

Author: Anonymous

Commentator: Charles Batten, Jr.

Release Date: September 16, 2010 [EBook #33735]

Language: English

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PAMELA CENSURED

(_1741_)

_Introduction by_

CHARLES BATTEN, JR.

PUBLICATION NUMBER _175_

WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

_University of California, Los Angeles_

_1976_

GENERAL EDITORS

William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

ADVISORY EDITORS

James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

INTRODUCTION

The publication of _Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded_ on 6 November 1740
occasioned the kind of immediate and hyperbolic praise which would have
turned the head of an author less vain than Richardson. Proclaimed by
Aaron Hill as being "the Soul of Religion," and by Knightley Chetwood as
the book next to the Bible which ought to be saved "if all the Books in
England were to be burnt," _Pamela_ seemed certain of universal acclaim,
especially when the Reverend Benjamin Slocock praised it extra