Explain what is meant by the following types of novels.

1. Epistolary novel

2. Serialized novel

For each type, name one writer who wrote in that style.

Epistolary novels were written in the form of a series of letters. It used a private and personal form of letters to tell its story. Samuel Richardson wrote in this style.

Serialized novels followed a format in which the story was published in installments, each part in a new issue of a journal. Charles Dicken’s Pickwick Papers written in 1836 was a serialized novel.