'Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews' Summary

Shamela Andrews is a servant girl who uses her wiles to seduce her master, Mr. Booby, into marrying her. The novel is written in a series of letters that reveal Shamela's true character. Although Shamela presents herself as a virtuous and chaste young woman, she is in fact a scheming and manipulative seductress. She uses her charms to entrap Mr. Booby, a wealthy and gullible landowner, into marriage. The novel is a satire of the popular novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson, which tells the story of a virtuous young woman who resists the advances of her master. Fielding's novel exposes the hypocrisy and double standards of the time, and it shows that virtue is not always rewarded.