Topics: English Novel, Rise of the English Novel, English Novel origin, Major English Novelists realism, First English Novels, 8th Century English Novels, Background and Influences, 20th Century Novels, prose, fiction, narrative, gothic, allegory, fables, romance, literacy, serial novel, Circulating Library, printing press, Literary Journals, Literary Criticism, Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, Henry Fielding, Tobias George Smollett