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    Geoffrey Chaucer — The Canterbury Tales (late 14th century) Daniel Defoe — A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), Moll Flanders (1722) Many of Charles Dickens'...
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    were a public nuisance. Crossing sweepers also found their way into 19th-century fiction and artwork, including a novel by Charles Dickens and a popular painting...
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    Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in Oryol (modern-day Oryol Oblast...
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  • on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal. Publication of the sequel The Lord of the Rings altered many critics'...
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    (1870), also translated as Foolsburg, became important works of 19th-century fiction, and Saltykov is regarded as a major figure of Russian literary Realism...
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  • volumes by 2016). Titles in the series include reprints of 18th- and 19th-century fiction, anthologies of Scottish drama, editions of poetry and collections...
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  • Maupassant's "The Horla" (1887). Later examples of invisibility in 19th-century fiction include "The Plattner Story" (1896) and The Invisible Man (1897)...
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    editions, the Anne Sexton archive, the Robert Lee Wolff Collection of 19th-century fiction, the Pforzheimer Collection, the David O. Selznick archive, the Gloria...
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  • Fiona. Hard Cash (1863) Charles Reade – psychiatrists in 19th century fiction, in British Journal of Psychiatry, Feb 2009, 194 (3) 211 Wynne D. The Sensation...
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    usually portrayed as being refined and well-spoken. However, in 19th century fiction such as Dracula, butlers generally spoke with a strong Cockney or...
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    teacher in his native Lichfield. His essays for Thomas Warren's Birmingham Journal were his first published writing, and it was in Birmingham – also for Warren...
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    late 1920s Wright disposed of what was then perceived as "minor 19th-century fiction". T. S. Eliot, who was elected President of the library twelve years...
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    and, though personally characteristic, well within the norms of 19th-century fiction. Roderick Hudson (1875) is a Künstlerroman that traces the development...
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    fiction instead uses the word "gnomess" to refer to female gnomes. In 19th-century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy...
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  • powerful grip on the reader as the family chronicles and sagas of good 19th-century fiction and has the same kind of deep, complicated, personal appeal." Professor...
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    Serbian Uprising. Karađorđe is referenced in a number of works of 19th-century fiction. While he was still alive, the Hungarian dramatist István Balog [hu]...
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    Press. Colby, Robert A. (1966). "Barry Lyndon and the Irish Hero". 19th Century Fiction. XXI (2). University of California Press: 109–130. doi:10.2307/2932651...
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    December 2016. Nath, Kirsten (12 October 2005). Yorkshire Dialect in 19th Century Fiction and 20 th Century Reality. A Study of Dialectal Change with the Example...
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  • Thumbnail for Santiago Posteguillo
    Linguistics at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain, specialising in 19th-century fiction. He pays attention to the Elizabethan theater and the relationship...
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