Editing Epistolary novel (section)

=== Nineteenth century ===
* [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'' (1818) uses a frame story written in the form of letters, with the main narrative being told as a first person account by the titular character.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |url=https://www.vcestudyguides.com/blog/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=www.vcestudyguides.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Shelley |first=Mary Wollstonecraft |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuUyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17 |title=Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus |date=1891 |publisher=George Routledge and Sons |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] used the epistolary format for his first novel, ''[[Poor Folk]]'' (1846), as a series of letters between two friends, struggling to cope with their impoverished circumstances and life in Imperial-era Russia.
* ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'' (1848) by English author [[Anne Brontë]] is framed as a series of letters and diary entries.
* ''[[The Moonstone]]'' (1868) by [[Wilkie Collins]] uses a collection of various documents to construct a detective novel in English. In the second piece, a character explains that he is writing his portion because another had observed to him that the events surrounding the disappearance of the eponymous diamond might reflect poorly on the family, if misunderstood, and therefore he was collecting the true story. This is an unusual element, as most epistolary novels present the documents without questions about how they were gathered. He also used the form previously in ''[[The Woman in White (novel)|The Woman in White]]'' (1859).
* Spanish foreign minister [[Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano|Juan Valera's]] ''Pepita Jiménez'' (1874) is written in three sections, the first and third being a series of letters, the middle part narrated by an unknown observer.
* [[Bram Stoker]]'s ''[[Dracula]]'' (1897) uses not only letters and diaries, but also dictation [[Phonograph cylinder|cylinders]] and [[newspaper]] accounts.<ref name=bustle/>