<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The following works of literature have each been claimed as the first novel in English . </P> <Ul> <Li> Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written c. 1470, published 1485) </Li> <Li> William Baldwin, Beware the Cat, (written 1553, published 1570, 1584) </Li> <Li> John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) </Li> <Li> Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1581) </Li> <Li> Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666) </Li> <Li> John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) </Li> <Li> Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688) </Li> <Li> Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) </Li> <Li> Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722) </Li> <Li> Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written c. 1470, published 1485) </Li>

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