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... Jane Austen and Thackeray and Meredith . The snobberies and the aspirations inseparable from the notion of social class have been a source of comedy in English fiction from Fanny Burney to L. P. Hartley and Anthony Powell . Though it ...
... Jane Austen and Thackeray and Meredith . The snobberies and the aspirations inseparable from the notion of social class have been a source of comedy in English fiction from Fanny Burney to L. P. Hartley and Anthony Powell . Though it ...
Page 191
... Jane Austen , she knows her limits and never transgresses them . Jane Austen , though more remotely , is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowen also , whose first book , Encounters , a THE THIRTIES : BRITISH 191.
... Jane Austen , she knows her limits and never transgresses them . Jane Austen , though more remotely , is an ancestor of Elizabeth Bowen also , whose first book , Encounters , a THE THIRTIES : BRITISH 191.
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... Jane Austen " whether their minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether ...
... Jane Austen " whether their minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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