producing scores of journalistic pamphlets. Later writers, such as Sam- uel Richardson (1689-1761), presented their works of fiction, following the old pamphleteering tradition, as if they were "real." Thus Richardson's novel Pamela (1740) is presented as a collection of long-lost letters. Nov- elists also continued, in various ways, to practice journalism. Defoe and Henry Fielding (1707-1754) edited their own journals; Richardson headed the Stationers' Company, a London guild of newspaper,...