The English Novel proper came into being in the 18th century. Its four originators were Samuel Richardson (1689-1751), Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), and Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768). These four novelists are called the four pillars or the four wheels of the van of the English Novel. The novel proper with realistic and well-planned plots and individualistic characters came into vogue with the above named four novelists.
Samuel Richardson: Richardson was the first real novelist. His first novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded was published in two volumes in 1740. Two more volumes were added to it later on, so the complete novel ran into four volumes. The novelty of this novel is that its plot has been developed through the medium of letters or epistles. With this method of developing the plot, Richardson started a new type of novel called the Epistolary novel. Richardson’s next two novels were Clarissa Harlowe and Sir Charles Grandison.
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