Pamela or virtue rewarded. Samuel Richardson. 2012.

A tale of seduction and “Virtue Rewarded”. This early epistolary novel tells of the maidservant Pamela, abducted and abused by her master before she eventually falls in love with him.

Although Pamela was a bestseller and became hugely influential, it caused a scandal on its publication in 1749; not for the plot line of kidnap and attempted rape, but for Richardson’s idea that social and class roles could be overcome by morality and love.