"The English Novel was destined to become the most popular and prolific of all English literary forms..." - David Daiches The eighteenth century - "our excellent and indispensable eighteenth century" - is known in the history of English literature for the birth and development of the novel. Though the seed of this literary genre lays in the medieval romance, it threw into insignificance all other literary forms and became the dominant form to continue as such for hundreds of years, during this period. Although the undercurrent flow of English novel has been noticed in several works of Elizabethan writers, but it was this period when it took it's perfect shape and emerged with monumental significance in the hands of various English writers. Among them the most significant novelist were Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, who are also addressed as the pioneers of this genre. They not only erected the perfect structure of novel but also enhance it with wit too. In fact both of them stand out almost unrivaled in their age in their sphere of literature, which is fiction. One of them is mighty pioneer and the other a successful master. Their fictional authorship well indicates their creative competence and provides quite interesting assessment. It is however more interesting that neither Richardson nor Fielding were professional novelists or intended to be so. They became novelists accidentally rather by the turn of events. Richardson in course of composing and compiling love letters suddenly discovered his craft and emerged as a epistolary fiction writer.He wrote his novels in the form of letters of epistolary. Though it is not merely a natural one for him but also inevitable to his objective to reveal the working of the inner soul. It is definitely the most appropriate means for his attempt to record the fluctuation of emotions and inner conflict in a character. With this brilliance he portrayed the character of Pamela in his novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, as an exceptional study of human psychology. Here, the subject matter comprises of 32 letters, shows the virtue of a maid servant who resist the attempt of her mother to seduce her. She is a humble and morally incarnate; her successful resistance turns the gentleman's lust into love and finally he offers to marry her. This reversal of values and virtue in man is a counter pattern prompted by the extreme bourgeoisie consciousness of Richardson. Phelps believes that Richardson in this novel, introduced- "the deliberate and detailed analysis of conduct, motive, action, reaction which was essential for further progress."  Thus, Richardson with his Pamela extended the scope of novel to include a new meaning in character emotion, which reaches a new height in another remarkable work Clarissa. While the author of Pamela had been optimistic, because it was his main purpose to point out a positive example, the author of Clarissa thought it was his duty