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Entries: Epistolary Novel - "...although the use of letters to tell stories and to give racy gossip and instruction goes back in England at least as far as some primitive examples from the mid-sixteenth century and [...] includes such other precursors as Aphra Behn's Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1682)." Noble Savage - "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave (1688) portrayed a noble savage in chains." Novel - "English writers of the eighteenth century had as a background the experience of continental Europe. In addition to these beginnings, the English novelists had native parallels of their own---[...] the narrative chronicle of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688)..." Subtitle - "If a standard format could be settled on, its punctuation would probably follow the model of Goldsmith's "An Essay on the Theatre: or, a Comparison Between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy" or Aphra Behn's "The Dumb Virgin; or, the Force of Imagination," but variations are plentiful."