Pamela, Volume II  by Samuel Richardson

First published in the year 1740, the present epistolary novel ‘Pamela, Volume II’ was written by English writer Samuel Richardson. It tells the story of a beautiful 15-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. After Mr. B attempts unsuccessfully to seduce and rape her, he eventually rewards her virtue when he sincerely proposes an equitable marriage to her. In the novel’s second part, Pamela marries Mr. B and tries to acclimatize to upper-class society.