Richardson ’ s epistolary tale of a resolute servant girl, armed only with her ‘ virtue ’, battling against her master ’ s attempts at seduction had become an overnight literary sensation in 1741.

Hoffmann's tale Das Fräulein von Scuderi ( 1819 ), Elizabeth von Arnim's epistolary novel Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther ( 1907 ), and the comedy film Fräulein vom Amt ( 1954 ), whose title was a common phrase denoting a female operator at a telephone exchange.

Richardson ’ s epistolary tale of a resolute servant girl, armed only with her ‘ virtue ’ to battle against her master ’ s attempts at seduction, had become an overnight literary sensation in 1741.

The Aegean written documents have not yet proved ( by being found outside the area ) to be epistolary ( letter writing ) correspondence with other countries.

It begins with an epistolary address to the reader followed by an apocalyptic description of a complex series of events derived from prophetic visions which the author claims to have seen.

The book closes abruptly () with an epistolary warning based on the emblematic trope of a fast growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree during the Renaissance, for example by Andrea Alciato.

* The epistolary novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder centers on Julius Caesar, but prominently features Catullus, his poetry, his relationship ( and correspondence ) with Clodia, correspondence from his family and a description of his death.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).

* Fyodor Dostoevsky used the epistolary format for his first novel, Poor Folk ( 1846 ), as a series of letters between two friends, struggling to cope with their impoverished circumstances and life in pre-revolution Russia.

While the novel draws on the epistolary form, by the end of the story it reduces it, along with other media, to a monstrous " mass of typewriting ".

* In John Barth's epistolary work, Letters ( 1979 ), the author interacts with characters from his other novels.

* Ronald Munson used an epistolary style in " Fan Mail " ( 1994 ), where the entire plot is told using e-mails, letters, transcripts of television shows and telephone conversations, faxes, and interactions with a computer program called ELIZA.

He also pursued an unconsummated romantic attachment with the 25-year-old Sophie d ' Houdetot, which partly inspired his epistolary novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( also based on memories of his idyllic youthful relationship with Mme de Warens ).

During these years Paulinus engaged in considerable epistolary dialogue with Saint Jerome among others about monastic topics.

These letters include everything from personal letters to official government correspondence ( mostly in English ), letters to fellow humanist scholars ( in Latin ), including several epistolary tracts, verse epistles, prefatory letters ( some fictional ) to several of More's own works, letters to his children and their tutors ( in Latin ), and the so-called " prison-letters " ( in English ) which he exchanged with his oldest daughter, Margaret Roper while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London awaiting execution.

During the marriage, London continued his friendship with Anna Strunsky, co-authoring The Kempton-Wace Letters, an epistolary novel contrasting two philosophies of love.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

Although few were bothered by the epistolary style, Richardson feels obligated to continue his postscript with a defence of the form based on the success of it in Pamela.

The characters of Pamela, Clarissa, and Grandison are revealed in a personal way, with the first two using the epistolary form for " dramatic " purposes, and the last for " celebratory " purposes.

The novel deals with its theme of self-reflection also on the level of narratology in that its main topic of mindreading is presented by an omniscient narrator ; a minor ironic twist consists of the novel-within-a-novel motif with the fictitious novelist Helen Reed pondering about the old-fashioned genre of the epistolary novel while her thoughts are presented the very form of letters / emails.

The reader becomes familiar with Bloom's tolerant, humanistic outlook, his penchant for voyeurism and his ( purely epistolary ) infidelity.

* Letter I: Introduction-This letter introduces the persona of James, an American Farmer, and his epistolary dialogue with a minister.

* Miss Coote's Confession ( 1879 – 1880 ), an epistolary serial novella also supposedly by Rosa Coote in The Pearl, a pornographic magazine published by William Lazenby, deals with flagellation at home and at school.

Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austen's published work ( Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form ), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature.

Thus began a fruitful, though largely epistolary, collaboration between the two men, Joule conducting experiments, Thomson analysing the results and suggesting further experiments.

The epistolary formulae used in the Ramesside Period found its roots in the letters composed during the Amarna Period of the Twentieth Dynasty.

" Initially, for most of its first readers as well as for its author, it was not considered primarily a novel, and even less an " epistolary novel " ( as it is often classified now ), which was not at that time a constituted genre.

But it is in its numerous imitations – such as Lettres juives ( 1738 ) and Lettres chinoises ( 1739 ) of Boyer d ’ Argens, Lettres d ’ une Turque à Paris, écrites à sa sœur ( 1730 ) by Poullain de Saint-Foix ( published several times in conjunction with Lettres persanes ), and perhaps especially Françoise de Graffigny ’ s Lettres d ’ une Péruvienne ( 1747 ) – not to mention the letter-novels of Richardson – which, between 1721 and 1754, had in effect transformed Lettres persanes into an " epistolary novel.

Pamela is an epistolary novel, like Behn's Love Letters, but its purpose is to illustrate a single chapter in the life of a poor country girl.

In addition to its usual classification as form of epistolary, philosophical travel narrative – comparable to Montesquieu's Persian Letters – the text has been considered as a novel, and as a romance.

The Whalestoe Letters ( 2000 ) by cult author Mark Z. Danielewski is an epistolary novella which more fully develops the literary correspondence between Pelafina H. Lièvre and her son Johnny from 1982-1989, characters first introduced in Danielewski's prior work, House of Leaves.

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac ( 31 May 1597 – 18 February 1654 ) was a French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

In the Country of Last Things is a dystopian epistolary novel written by American author Paul Auster and first published in 1987.

Among further names proposed, are Hermagoras ( a rhetorician who lived in Rome during the 1st century AD ), Aelius Theon ( author of a work which had many ideas in common with those of On the Sublime ), and Pompeius Geminus ( who was in epistolary conversation with Dionysius ).

Although epistolary works can be considered multiple-person narratives, they also can be classified separately, as they arguably have no narrator at all — just an author who has gathered the documents together in one place.

This epistolary novel, an early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main character — the widowed Lady Susan — as she seeks a new husband for herself, and one for her daughter.

* Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Marjorie Daw and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper are two examples of epistolary short stories.

The Fudge Family in Paris is a 1818 epistolary verse novel by Thomas Moore.