Samuel Richardson's Pamela is the first English novel

Bibliography
Editions

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  Richardson, Samuel Pamela (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003) ISBN 978-0140431407. Edited by Margaret Ann Doody and Peter Sabor. This edition takes as its copy-text the revised, posthumously published edition of 1801.
  
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  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0199536498. Edited by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely. This edition takes as its copy-text the first edition of November 1740 (dated 1741).
  
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  Richardson, Samuel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded (Lector House, 2019) ISBN 935-3366712.
  

Criticism

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  Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
  
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  Blanchard, Jane. “Composing Purpose in Richardson's ‘Pamela.’” South Atlantic Review, vol. 76, no. 2, 2011, pp. 93–107. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43050924.
  
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  Conboy, Sheila C. “Fabric and Fabrication in Richardson's Pamela.” ELH, vol. 54, no. 1, 1987, pp. 81–96. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2873051.
  
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  Doody, Margaret Anne. A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
  
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  Dussinger, John A. ""Ciceronian Eloquence": The Politics of Virtue in Richardson's Pamela." Eighteenth Century Fiction, vol. 12, no. 1, 1999, pp. 39–60. University of Toronto Press. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/ecf.1999.0019.
  
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  Flynn, Carol Houlihan. "Horrid Romancing: Richardson’s Use of the Fairy Tale." In Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters, 145–95. Princeton University Press, 1982. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zvgnr.8.
  
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  Gwilliam, Tassie. “Pamela and the Duplicitous Body of Femininity.” Representations, no. 34. 1991, pp. 104–33. University of California Press. JSTOR 2928772.
  
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  Keymer, Tom; Sabor, Peter (2005), Pamela in the Marketplace: literary controversy and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521813372.
  
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  Levin, Gerald. “Richardson's ‘Pamela’: ‘Conflicting Trends.’” American Imago, vol. 28, no. 4, 1971, pp. 319–329. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26302663.
  
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  McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel: 1600–1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  
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  Rivero, Albert J. “The Place of Sally Godfrey in Richardson’s Pamela.” Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson, edited by David Blewett, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. 52–72. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442678293.9.
  
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  Rogers, Katharine M. “Sensitive Feminism vs. Conventional Sympathy: Richardson and Fielding on Women.” NOVEL; A Forum on Fiction, vol. 9, no. 3., 1976, pp. 256–70. Duke University Press. JSTOR 1345466
  
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  Townsend, Alex, Autonomous Voices: An Exploration of Polyphony in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, 2003, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003, ISBN 978-3-906769-80-6, 978-0-8204-5917-2
  
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  Vallone, Lynne. "“The Matter of Letters”: Conduct, Anatomy, and Pamela." In Disciplines of Virtue: Girls` Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 26-44. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1995. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt211qw91.6.
  
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  Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957