Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood?s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding?s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson?s novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson?s representations of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in eighteenth-century London. Fielding?s Shamela punctures both the figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela?s preoccupation with virtue.

This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the period on sexuality, women?s work, Pamela and the print trade, and education and conduct.