In the above survey of second-person texts before 1900 (those that I have so far come across), I have outlined various anticipations of later models and, at the same time, tried to suggest that there has always been a great variety of second-person narrative. I have deliberately refrained from writing a "history," implying a linear development from the available evidence. It is to be expected that many more texts will come to light especially in the devotional literature of the Middle Ages, and I have therefore considered a historical presentation premature and unwarranted at this time. The historical survey has as its major purpose to stimulate a more general interest in the question of second-person fiction, which, I hope, will result in the discovery of many more (proto)texts and eventually enrich our understanding of this neglected mode of narration. In due course, it should then become possible to write a proper history of second-person fiction.