Samuel Richardson's Pamela is the first English novel

CONCLUSION
In a conclusion, the “Editor” of Pamela’s letters reveals that Pamela’s later life continues to be a happy one: she receives semiannual visits from her parents and bears several children. She remains popular among the local gentry and nobility, and even Lady Davers continues on good terms with the Squire and his wife. Pamela succeeds in establishing the moral character of Miss Goodwin, who does not repeat her mother’s mistakes.
In spite of being one of the most interesting writers, about Samuel Richardson's early life, little is known, since he began to write when he was 51 years old. I think it is important to indicate the fact that he was mainly known as a letters writer. One of the most important works of his life was Pamela, which is a wonderful story of a girl called Pamela who has only 15 years old and works as a servant. She is persecuted by her master called Mr.B, so the intrigues, which make the reader can not stop the reading, are observed in the novel because we do not know if she will fall in love with him or not during all the novel.
Pamela is an epistolary novel and there are some themes important for discussing. Firstly, when we are reading, we get the information of the novel by means of character's letters. The style is simple and fluent but we must observe that in the novel is writing Pamela who is a servant, that is, a girl who has not a high level of education.
Pamela is an example of psychologic introspection novel. It is important the fact that through Pamela's letters we can discover perfectly her mind and psychology; it is a passage of psychological introspection because actually it is being studied the inner self of Pamela. The work also shows the matter of the morality, since there is a moral problem with Pamela because the reader is not sure if Pamela finally gets married with Mr. B by love or only by her social ascent.
This novel has its source in a collection of letters, which form a history, reflecting the world of the social middle class.
Finally, only say that fortunately it was a successful work in the 18th century, staying now within our reach for enjoying its reading.
The form which Richardson adopted for the telling of Pamela is directly indicated on the title-e: it is “a series of familiar letters”. The writer places himself in the position of an editor, arranging and publishing, without comment, a series of thirty-two letters followed by a long journal which Pamela herself wrote while cut off from her friends at B-Hall: this journal also includes letters written both by Pamela and other characters.
To us today the novel may seem tedious and unconvincingly moralizing. Yet it was immensely popular and it was a remarkable breakthrough, a breach in a rigid and discriminating class system.
The novel also comments on the sexual and social inequality of the position of women.