 | Paul Kuritz - Performing Arts - 1988 - 478 pages
...Rewarded. In a Series o/ Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, To Her Parents. Nowßrst Published In Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes (1740). It was followed by Henry Fielding's (1707-1754) more cynical Tom Jones (1749). The Novel... | |
 | Steven Starker - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 226 pages
...a Series of Familiar Letters From A Beautiful Young Damsel, To Her Parents. Now first Published 1n order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has its Foundation in Truth and Nature; and at the same time that it agreeably... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - Women - 1996 - 240 pages
...of fiction. Instead, it is puffed as a conduct book and a collection of familiar letters "published in order to cultivate the principles of virtue and religion in the minds of the youth of both sexes." For those potential readers who suspected that the work might be fiction, Richardson emphasized... | |
 | Brian Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 332 pages
...didactic: "a series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to her parents. Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes."17 Offering Pamela's letters to "Dear Father and Mother," and the parents' much less frequent... | |
 | Social Science - 1979 - 334 pages
...important proponent was Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), whose creative work, he declared, was intended "to cultivate the principles of virtue and religion in the minds of the youth of both sexes." Pamela, the heroine of his first novel, was a servant in the house of a nobleman who, after... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Fiction - 1998 - 406 pages
...were not included in any of the discussions of the new fiction. It proclaimed itself to be 'published in order to cultivate the principles of virtue and religion in the minds of both sexes'. Many were ready to mock these claims (it was, after all, a tale of sexual harassment),... | |
 | Thomas O. Beebee - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 300 pages
...Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, to her Parents. Now first published 1n order to cult,vate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of both Sexes. ANarration which has its Foundation in Truth and Nature; and at the same time that it agreeably... | |
 | Miranda J. Burgess - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 330 pages
...the Most Important and Entertaining Subjects in Genteel Life. The Third and Fourth Volumes, Publish'd in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes, London: Rivington, 1742. Robbins, Caroline, The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies... | |
 | Bradford K. Mudge - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 298 pages
...In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, To her Parents. Now first Published In order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. In Richardson's novel, passion is exclusively male, and the object of its attention, female... | |
 | Ned C. Landsman - History - 2000 - 244 pages
...SERIES OF FAMILIAR LETTERS FROM A Beautiful Young DAMSEL, To her PARENTS. Now firft Poblifted In o;der to cultivate the Principles of VIRTUE and RELIGION in the Minds of the YOUTH of BOTH SEXES. , A Narrative which has its Foundation in TRUTH and NATURE; and at the fame time that it agreeably... | |
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Pamela: Or. Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of Familiar Letters from a beautiful Young Damsel, to her Parents. Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of both Sexes. 
