Summary
They belong to a class of fictions which has arisen almost in our own times, and which draws the characters and incidents introduced more immediately from the current of ordinary life than was permitted by the former rules of the novel.
– SIR WALTER SCOTT ON JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS IN A REVIEW OF Emma- Type
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- The Civilized ImaginationA Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, pp. 69 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985