Turin (Italy). The role of Pamela is that of Elisa Scalzi (played by Vittoria Puccini) in the series. The role of Mr. B is that of Count Fabrizio Ristori (played by Alessandro Preziosi). Allusions/references from other works : Jane mentions Bessie's nursery stories and how some of them came from Pamela. : Amanda, attempting to pass herself off as a lady's maid, uses Pamela as inspiration to invent a story that she was fired from her previous position because her employer had made improper advances towards her. : The character of Doctor Montague mentions several times that he is reading Pamela. : Some have viewed this novel to be a modern retelling of Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded as it shares many key elements with the novel, such as a young, beautiful woman being taken by an arrogant man. However, Amis claimed afterwards that he had little interest in classic fiction, which makes this proposition less likely. : The character Captain York recommends the novel Pamela to his dinner guests. , the third novel in the Outlander series: In the chapter "The Torremolinos Gambit", the characters Jamie Fraser and Lord John Grey discuss Samuel Richardson's immense novel Pamela. Another mention is made in The Fiery Cross, Gabaldon's fifth novel in the series, wherein Roger Wakefield is perusing the Fraser library and comes across the "monstrous" "gigantic" novel with several bookmarks delineating where various readers gave up on the novel, either temporarily or permanently. . On 9 January 2007, BBC Radio 4 broadcast The Long View which contrasted Pamelas effect on 18th-century society with that of video games on 20th-century society. : Both volumes of Pamela have been read by Elizabeth Bennet and she passes the books to one of the maids. The maid contemplates the behavior of the characters and wonders what her own conduct would be if put in the same position. Footnotes References Bibliography Editions Richardson, Samuel Pamela (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003) . Edited by Margaret Ann Doody and Peter Sabor. This edition takes as its copy-text the revised, posthumously published edition of 1801. — (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) . Edited by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely. This edition takes as its copy-text the first edition of November 1740 (dated 1741). Richardson, Samuel Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded (Lector House, 2019) . Criticism Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press,