Pamela Resources

If you don't feel like lugging around the paper copy, Gutenberg has an online edition just for you. Plus, you can search for exactly how many times Pamela says the word "virtue."

Take a Pamela-inspired quiz over on the-toast.net to find out if your master likes you or likes you likes you.

Back in the 1740s, Pamela was controversial stuff. Check out the short blurb on academic publisher Pickering & Chatto's site to get a taste of the arguments from both the "Pamelist" and "Antipamelist" camps.

People were still arguing about Pamela's motives in the 1970s, as this pair of letters to the editors proves. (Plus, it contains an unprintable insult. Good times!)

Mistress Pamela (1974) is a loose—no pun intended--adaptation of Pamela, with all the production values you expect from a 1970s movie.

In 2003, Italian TV adapted Pamela as Elisa di Rivombrosa. Come on, BBC: we need a new English-language Pamela in our lives. (You know you want to see Benedict Cumberbatch as Mr. B.)

Carlo Goldoni wrote a libretto for Niccolò Piccinni's comic opera La Buona Figliuola, which was based on Pamela. It was first performed in 1760, and you can check out Act 1 of a production at Northwestern University's School of Music.

Have a long car ride in your future? A free audiobook version of Pamela is available online.

BBC's delightful Melvyn Bragg talks on Radio 4 about epistolary literature—including Richardson's Pamela. (And Clarissa, if you're really up for a challenge.)

Think of it like fan art: artist Joseph Highmore's painting of Pamela's run-in with Lady Davers. Too bad he didn't have a Tumblr to share it on.

Joseph Highmore also gave us a scene of Pamela and Mr. B's wedding. We love happy endings.

Joseph Highmore was a bit obsessed with Pamela. Here's his painting depicting Mr. B dressed as Nan and about to attack Pamela.

Check out this Web page devoted to images from the 1742 illustrated edition. (Warning: future editions introduced some plot changes.)