… consistency, recognition and legitimacy required to ensure its persistence and prominence on the literary stage. This awareness of alterity, this consideration of the other’s position and thus this form of reciprocity and mutual dependence … Front pages of Idalia (1723) and Roxana (1742) A victim of its own success, Samuel Richardson ’s Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded , first published on November 6 th , 1740, triggered a vast variety of fictional and non-fictional responses, … the title and plot of a novella published by the prolific authoress in 1727: The Perplex’d Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded recounts the story of a lady’s maid, Gigantilla, who, under the false pretense of virtue, schemes to entrap the …