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Barbara Pym wrote novels of village life in England, which have been compared in nature to whose?
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About whom did John Updike declare: "This writer is not merely good, she is wickedly good"?
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Of whom did A.L. Rowse say: "I could go on reading her forever"?
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Finish this statement by Nick Hornby: "My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world, is _________"
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Of whom did Lord David Cecil declare that her "unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels are the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the last seventy five years"?
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Who gave us the following appreciation of Jane Austen's work?
"Jane Austen is thus a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears upon the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader's mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial. Always the stress is laid upon character. ... Think away the surface animation, the likeness to life, and there remains, to provide a deeper pleasure, an exquisite discrimination of human values. Dismiss this too from the mind and one can dwell with extreme satisfaction upon the more abstract art which ... so varies the emotions and proportions the parts that it is possible to enjoy it, as one enjoys poetry, for itself, and not as a link which carries the story this way and that."
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Of whom is John Updike writing here?
"She writes thrillingly well, in lucid, balanced sentences that owe something to the scrupulous qualifications and dry moral vigilance of Henry James. She sees human beings, if one may generalize, as most active in their own behalfs, and the ruthless drive of her characters, as filtered through the rueful sensibility of one of her female observers, can shock us into laughter. She is, in the English tradition, a thoroughly social novelist, for whom there lies beyond the human spectacle nothing but death and scenery, yet she brings to the English scene an outsider's eye."
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Who wrote this, after a visit to Jane Austen's home?
"I put my hand down on Jane's desk and bring it up covered with dust. Oh that some of her genius might rub off on me! One would have imagined the devoted female custodian going round with her duster at least every other day."
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