Pamela

Pamela

by

Samuel Richardson

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Mrs. Jervis Character Analysis

Mrs. Jervis is Pamela’s main ally in her new job as a servant for Mr. B. She is an older woman who provides advice to the young and naïve Pamela, acting like a surrogate parent figure. While Pamela and Pamela’s mother and father all have the utmost faith in Mrs. Jervis, she sometimes gives bad advice. Particularly when Pamela is new, Mrs. Jervis underestimates how aggressively Mr. B is willing to act toward Pamela. Nevertheless, when Mrs. Jervis realizes how far Mr. B is willing to go to satisfy his lust, she does whatever she can to protect Pamela, eventually getting dismissed for her efforts. At the end, however, after Pamela marries Mr. B, Pamela rehires Mrs. Jervis and rewards her handsomely for her efforts. Mrs. Jervis’s story echoes Pamela’s, then, as it shows how virtuous behavior eventually pays off.

Mrs. Jervis Quotes in Pamela

The Pamela quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Jervis or refer to Mrs. Jervis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Value of Virtue Theme Icon
).
Letter 10 Quotes

For I am watch’d, and such-like, very narrowly; and he says to Mrs. Jervis, This girl is always scribbling; I think she may be better employ’d.

Related Characters: Pamela (speaker), Mr. B (speaker), Mrs. Jervis, Father, Mother
Page Number: 22
Explanation and Analysis:
Letter 24 Quotes

Say no more, Mrs. Jervis; for by G—d I will have her!

Related Characters: Mr. B (speaker), Pamela, Mrs. Jervis
Page Number: 59
Explanation and Analysis:
Letter 32 Quotes

Why now, says she, how strangely you talk! Are not the two Sexes made for one another? And is it not natural for a Gentleman to love a pretty Woman? And suppose he can obtain his Desires, is that so bad as cutting her Throat? And then the Wretch fell a laughing, and talk’d most impertinently, and shew’d me, that I had nothing to expect from her Virtue or Conscience

Related Characters: Mrs. Jewkes (speaker), Pamela, Mr. B, Mrs. Jervis
Page Number: 110
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The Journal Quotes

Your poor Pamela cannot answer for the Liberties taken with her in her deplorable State of Death.

Related Characters: Pamela (speaker), Mr. B, Mrs. Jewkes, Mrs. Jervis, Mr. Williams, Father, Mother, Nan
Page Number: 204
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Mrs. Jervis Quotes in Pamela

The Pamela quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Jervis or refer to Mrs. Jervis. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Value of Virtue Theme Icon
).
Letter 10 Quotes

For I am watch’d, and such-like, very narrowly; and he says to Mrs. Jervis, This girl is always scribbling; I think she may be better employ’d.

Related Characters: Pamela (speaker), Mr. B (speaker), Mrs. Jervis, Father, Mother
Page Number: 22
Explanation and Analysis:
Letter 24 Quotes

Say no more, Mrs. Jervis; for by G—d I will have her!

Related Characters: Mr. B (speaker), Pamela, Mrs. Jervis
Page Number: 59
Explanation and Analysis:
Letter 32 Quotes

Why now, says she, how strangely you talk! Are not the two Sexes made for one another? And is it not natural for a Gentleman to love a pretty Woman? And suppose he can obtain his Desires, is that so bad as cutting her Throat? And then the Wretch fell a laughing, and talk’d most impertinently, and shew’d me, that I had nothing to expect from her Virtue or Conscience

Related Characters: Mrs. Jewkes (speaker), Pamela, Mr. B, Mrs. Jervis
Page Number: 110
Explanation and Analysis:
The Journal Quotes

Your poor Pamela cannot answer for the Liberties taken with her in her deplorable State of Death.

Related Characters: Pamela (speaker), Mr. B, Mrs. Jewkes, Mrs. Jervis, Mr. Williams, Father, Mother, Nan
Page Number: 204
Explanation and Analysis: