e, at least in the midland
counties of England," is not "to be looked for" in romances (chap. xxv).
Romances can be dangerous since they often provide faulty models of
moral action for readers who are likely to confuse romantic adventures
with the roles they must assume in real life. This attack on romances in
_Northanger Abbey_, moreover, is neither new nor unique, Catherine
Moreland being but the literary descendant of such eighteenth-century
"female quixotes" as Polly Peachum, Lydia Languish, Polly Honeycomb, and
Lydia Melford.

[8] Eaves and Kimpel, _Samuel Richardson_, p. 129.

[9] For a more thorough discussion of Richardson's revisions, see T. C.
Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, "Richardson's Revisions of _Pamela_,"
_Studies in Bibliography_, 20 (1967), 61-88.

[10] Richardson's letter to William Warburton, 14 April 1748, cited in
Eaves and Kimpel, _Samuel Richardson_, p. 118.

[11] "Defoe, Richardson, Joyce, and the Concept of Form in the Novel,"
in _Autobiography, Biography, and the Novel_ (Los Angeles: William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1973), p. 36.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The facsimile of _Pamela Censured_ (1741) is reproduced by permission
from the copy (Shelf Mark: *EC7/R3961/T741p) in the Houghton Library,
Harvard University. The total type-page (p. 7) measures 166 x 83 mm.

PAMELA CENSURED:

IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

SHEWING

That under the Specious Pretence of Cultivating the Principles of Virtue
in the Minds of the Youth of both Sexes, the MOST ARTFUL and ALLURING
AMOROUS IDEAS are convey'd.

And that, instead of being divested of all Images that tend to
_inflame_; Her Letters abound with Incidents, which must necessarily
raise in the unwary Youth that read them, EMOTIONS _far distant_ from
the PRINCIPLES of VIRTUE.

Exemplified in many Quotations, with a CRITICAL REVIEW, and REMARKS upon
the _Whole_.

Ridet hoc, inquam, Venus ipsa; rident
Simplices Nymphae, ferus & Cupido,
Semper ardentes acuens Sagittas
Cote Cruenta.
HORAT.

_LONDON:_

Printed for J. ROBERTS, at the _Oxford Arms_, in _Warwick-Lane_.
MDCCXLI.

[Illustration]

To the REVEREND

Doctor _SLOCOCK_,

CHAPLAIN of St. _Saviour's_ in _Southwark_.

REVEREND SIR,

When a Person, whose _Profession_ and _Character_ in the World claim a
_Reverence_ and _Attention_, exerts himself in earnestly recommending a
Piece to our Perusal, as he bespeaks Esteem