British novel writing was not so popular initially , but it was the  Daniel Defoe  who took  step in novel writing along with other writers in the early 18th century 
but it was the "Gulliver's travel" who got famous in that era.With the passage of time people starting using different ideas in the novel. Then the romanticism in the novel introduced in the late 18th century which was remains popular for about 50 years. Writers like Wordsworth and William blake took romanticism to peak.
 Then the novel on genre fiction and science fiction starts to come. Then victorian era in the novel took the lead. This was the time when female novelist rises. Most of the novel got very popular that some of them was sale out when it comes to market.
People then try the social as well as the tragic novel in the writing. After that every writers took the idea on his own and write on different ideas.
As the modernization  in the novel comes writers starts to write on social and reality novel. realism took the lead then . Later on in the 20th century realism comes up with romanticism and other genre of novel .realism with moral and magical genre comes. Some even write on autobiography, but the romanticism remains the man point on the novelist.

Pride and Prejudice is the mostwell known of Jane Austen’s books. Pride and Prejudice was first