Samuel Richardson's Pamela is the first English novel

Glossary
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Footnotes
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Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. (2001). Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded. Keymer, Thomas, 1962-, Wakely, Alice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-282960-2. OCLC 46641908.
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Bray, Joe (29 August 2003). The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203130575. ISBN 978-0-203-13057-5.
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Keymer; Sabor (2005), Pamela in the Marketplace, p. 5, ISBN 978-0521813372.
Bender, Ashley. "Samuel Richardson's Revisions of Pamela". ProQuest 305167953. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
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Burke, Ray. "Novel departure – Vertue Rewarded, the first Irish novel written in English". The Irish Times.
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