Novels connect people of common interest in the following ways:
(i) Novels created a common interest among scattered and varied readers.
(ii) Readers were drawn into their stories and could identify with the life of fictitious characters.
(iii) They could discuss issues such as relationship between love and marriage, proper conduct for men and women.
(ii) New group of people as shopkeeper, clerk along with the aristocrats in England and France formed the new readership.