An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, by Henry Fielding

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber. (Fielding never owned to writing the work but it is widely considered to be his.) It is a direct attack on the then-popular novel Pamela (November 1740) by Fieldings contemporary and rival Samuel Richardson and is composed, like Pamela, in epistolary form.