Question

Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the character in

Answer 1

Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the main characters in the prose work The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia written by Sir Philip Sydney.

Pamela is the key character in Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded written in two volumes. Pamela Andrews or Pamela as she is called is a 15-year old good looking maid servant who works for Mr B. As the story moves ahead, in the second part, she marries him.

Answer 2

The answer of your question is ''The countess of Pembroke'a Arcadia " Which was the work of the famous ''Sir Philip Sydney".
Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela from this famous work.
This heroin is in novel of Samuel   which is named as Pamela or virtue rewarded and the story in this novel revolve around a beautiful maid servant which have the age of around 15 and which full name is "Pamela Andrew".

This novel was one of the best selling novel of it's time.