In Samuel Richardson's 1740 novel Pamela, Mr. B. cites the story of Lucretia as a reason why Pamela ought not fear for her reputation, should he rape her.

Pamela Andrews, heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740-41)

Prior to that, he starred in the mini-series entitled Elisa di Rivombrosa (2003), a period piece based on the novel Pamela written by Samuel Richardson.

Richardson was extremely vocal in his disapproval of the way the protagonist of his novel Pamela was repeatedly incorporated into unauthorized sequels featuring particularly lewd plots.

His novel Pamela was listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the list of books that Catholics were not allowed to read.

The libretto, by Carlo Goldoni, is based on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela.

You might compare, for instance, a real letter from 1740 with one of the letters in Richardson's novel Pamela (published 1740, and made up of a sequence of imitation letters).

However, it is believed that the first romance novel was written by Samuel Richardson, who wrote the novel Pamela in 1740.

It was based on the 1740 novel Pamela by Samuel Richardson.

His starting-point is La finta giardiniera which he regards, perhaps arguably, as a descendant of Richardson's novel Pamela and also, unarguably, as the first time we hear, dramatically, Mozart's individual voice.