This chapter presents data on the English novel from 1701 to 1810. Many of the trends in the French novel are shown to be repeated in England, although sometimes on a different timetable. Among the starker differences are a much more rapid decline of pseudofactuality and a more sudden and stronger uptake of the polyphonic epistolary novel. Data also suggest that these differences may be plausibly explained by the fact that the small production of English novels prior to 1750 made for an extremely unstable—and thus more easily modified—novel system.