The Eighteenth-Century Fiction database comprises the works of thirty influential British writers of the eighteenth century. The works included in the database number near a hundred and many are from first editions.
Genres range from amatory fiction to epistolary novels to political satire.
Authors include Penelope Aubin, Frances Burney, John Cleland, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Frances Sheridan, Tobias Smollett, and Horace Walpole. The complete text of each work is included, and any accompanying authorial material, such as footnotes or introductions. First editions have been used unless considered unreliable. Original images are included and are instantly accessible from the relevant point in the text. A Table of Contents is available online.