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Pamela is a feminine given name, often abbreviated to Pam. Pamela is also infrequently used as a surname. History Sir Philip Sidney invented the name Pamela for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, written in the late 16th century and published posthumously. The name is widely taken to mean "all sweetness", formed on the Greek words πᾶν pan ("all") and μέλι meli ("honey"), but there is no evidence regarding what meaning, if any, Sidney intended for it.The Samuel Richardson novel Pamela in 1740 or 1741 inaugurated the use of Pamela as a given name but it was not in common usage until the 20th century. A rare early bearer of the name, Lady Edward FitzGerald (c. 1773 – 1831), although known by the first name Pamela, was born Stephanie Caroline Anne Syms.The name's popularity may have been hindered by the tendency to pronounce it pə-MEE-lə which was not fully superseded by the now-standard PAM-ə-lə until the start of the 20th century when the name finally entered general usage. Pamelia was a commonly used version of the name in use in the Southern United States. This evolved into Permelia, a variant of the name in use since the 1700s.Pamela was very popular in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s with the tallies of the most popular names for British newborn girls for the respective years 1934, 1944 and 1954 ranking Pamela at respectively #20, #17 and #24. Evidently less popular from the 1960s—being ranked on the respective 1964 tally at #67—the name Pamela has grown increasingly unfashionable, with a reported total of eleven newborn girls in Britain given the name in 2009. The name was similarly most used throughout the Anglosphere from the 1940s through the mid-1970s. For instance, it was among the one hundred most used names for girls in the United States between 1943 and 1976 and remained among the one thousand most used names for American girls until 2011. It has since declined in use. Given name People with the name or its variants include: Surname Lucia Pamela, American musicianFictional characters Pamela, one of the Thea Sisters in Thea Stilton Pamela Andrews, heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740–1741) Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley or Poison Ivy, character in DC Comics and enemy of Batman Pamela Voorhees, in the Friday the 13th films Pamela Barnes Ewing, in TV series Dallas Pamela Abbott, one of the Abbott sisters in the movie, Inventing the Abbotts Pamela Douglas, from soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful Pamela Ibis, a recurring character from the Atelier series of video games. Pamela Moran, a main character in Army Wives Pamela Byrnes (later Focker), a main character in the Meet the Parents film trilogy Pamela Beesly, from the sitcom The Office Pamela Swynford De Beaufort, from the HBO TV series, True Blood.See also Pam (disambiguation) List of Wikipedia articles starting with Pamela List of Wikipedia articles starting with PamReferences. Discover the Pamela Brookes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Pamela Brookes books.

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    The Miseducation of Henry Cane

    Charles Brooks

    A stunning comingofage novel about one young man's eyeopening sexual awakening at the hands of an intriguing older woman. Henry Cane knows exactly what he’s going to do with the re...

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    Four Chapter Books 9

    Pamela Brookes

    The DOG ON A LOG Book series helps kids, including kids with dyslexia, learn to read. They are sound out books that start with just a few phonics rules.  Each following Step o...