… example is Mary Davys’ 1727 novel The Accomplished Rake, Or Modern Fine Gentleman , in which the undue pride and failed education of the young protagonist Sir John Galliard are identified as the very evils that ultimately led him to rape and … and relatives. But it is with fiction that Richardson honed in on his preoccupation with the moral and sentimental education of Britain’s youth, first in 1740 with Pamela , where the figure of the rake is already established as the …