_The English Domestic Novel._--My first intention was to ask whether Defoe
was the founder of this pleasing class of literature, but have just
recollected, that Mrs. Aphara Behn wrote something of the kind in the time
of Charles II. My first question will be, therefore, who was the earliest
writer of this description? And, secondly, is not the matter of sufficient
interest to ask your readers' assistance in the formation of a list, giving
full titles, authors' names, and dates extending to 1730 or 1750?