Which of the following is the first novel of English literature?

• Pamela', in full Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is written by Samuel Richardson - এই উপন্যাসটিকে ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের প্রথম English Novel হিসেবে বিবচনা করা হয়।- Novel টি হচ্ছে একটি Epistolary novel অর্থাৎ অনেকটা চিঠির মতো করে লেখা এই উপন্যাস।- এটি ১৭৪০ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।- The novel is based on a story about a servant and the man who, failing to seduce her, marries her.• Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761), an English novelist. - His major novels were:- Pamela (1740) and- Clarissa (1747–48).অন্যদিকে, - Beowulf is the Earliest Epic in English literature.- Gorboduc, the first English tragedy, is written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville.- Ralph Roister Doister written by Nicholas Udall is considered as the first English comedy.Source: An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica.