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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose works depicting the British middle class are a landmark in the development of the modern novel. She is best known for the novels Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Persuasion (1817). Drawing examples from both Emma and Persuasion, Forster notes that all of the characters in Austen’s novels are ‘‘round.’’

Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was a British...


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