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Page 67
... successful as he in what he invented . What his descendants inherited they often used badly and un- suitably . Jane Austen alone put out her legacy to really profitable interest . Very largely , the English novelists ' conception of ...
... successful as he in what he invented . What his descendants inherited they often used badly and un- suitably . Jane Austen alone put out her legacy to really profitable interest . Very largely , the English novelists ' conception of ...
Page 98
... successful for the first time - in the fiction of Mrs Radcliffe . In her work the characters are wholly subordinate to environment ; it plays upon them , invades them , almost takes them over altogether . By com- parison with her ...
... successful for the first time - in the fiction of Mrs Radcliffe . In her work the characters are wholly subordinate to environment ; it plays upon them , invades them , almost takes them over altogether . By com- parison with her ...
Page 183
... successful works , Cranford ( 1853 ) and Wives and Daughters ( 1864–6 ) . Here , she is content to do what she can do well , and the results are charming . In Cranford the quiet humours and the equally quiet disasters of the lives of ...
... successful works , Cranford ( 1853 ) and Wives and Daughters ( 1864–6 ) . Here , she is content to do what she can do well , and the results are charming . In Cranford the quiet humours and the equally quiet disasters of the lives of ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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