The Eighteenth-Century Novel: A Brief Chronology

1678  John Bunyan.  The Pilgrim's Progress

1688  Aphra Behn.  Oroonoko

1719  Daniel Defoe.  Robinson Crusoe

1720  Daniel Defoe.  Captain Singleton

1722  Daniel Defoe.  Moll Flanders

1724  Daniel Defoe.  Roxanna

1725  Daniel Defoe.  Jonathan Wild

1726  Jonathan Swift.  Gulliver's Travels

1740  Samuel Richardson.  Pamela

1741  Henry Fielding.  Shamela

1742  Henry Fielding.  Joseph Andrews

1744  Sarah Fielding.  David Simple

1748  Tobias Smollett.  Roderick Random

1747-48  Samuel Richardson.  Clarissa

1748-49  John Cleland.  Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)

1749  Henry Fielding.  Tom Jones

1751  Tobias Smollett.  Peregrine Pickle

1752  Henry Fielding.  Amelia

1752  Charlotte Lennox.  The Female Quixote

1753  Tobias Smollett.  Ferdinand Count Fathom

1753-54  Samuel Richardson.  Sir Charles Grandison

1759  Samuel Johnson.  Rasselas

1759-67  Laurence Sterne.  Tristram Shandy

1762  Tobias Smollett.  Sir Launcelot Greaves

1765  Horace Walpole.  The Castle of Otranto

1766  Oliver Goldsmith.  The Vicar of Wakefield

1768  Laurence Sterne.  A Sentimental Journey

1771  Tobias Smollett.  Humphry Clinker

1771  Henry Mackenzie.  The Man of Feeling

1777  Clara Reeve.  The Champion of Virtue: A Gothic Story (as The Old English Baron, 1778)

1778  Fanny Burney.  Evelina

1782  Fanny Burney.  Cecilia

1786  William Beckford.  An Arabian Tale (Vathek)

1796  Fanny Burney.  Camilla

1796  Matthew ("Monk") Lewis.  The Monk

1800  Maria Edgeworth.  Castle Rackrent

1811  Jane Austen.  Sense and Sensability

1813  Jane Austen.  Pride and Prejudice

1814  Jane Austen.  Mansfield Park

1814  Sir Walter Scott.  Waverly

1816  Jane Austen.  Emma

1817  Sir Walter Scott.  Rob Roy

1818  Mary Shelly (Wollstonecraft).  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

1818  Jane Austen.  Northanger Abbey

1819  Sir Walter Scott.  Ivanhoe