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Her Literary Reputation

1973
Jane Austen was much too critical to resort to the plot devices of popular fiction. It is not surprising therefore that she never received public acclamation comparable to that bestowed on the author of the Waverley Novels, or reached the reading masses as Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte did. Her anonymity and avoidance of publicity did nothing to
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Wells’s Literary Reputation

1979
H. G. Wells was the enfant terrible of English letters. He refused to conform to any of the established canons of literature, preferring to call himself a journalist and insisting that his work was only of transitory value.
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Creating a Literary Reputation

1993
Shelley undertook many difficult literary and journalistic projects in addition to novel-writing, but the most taxing was her first edition of PBS’s poetry. Though Posthumous Poems was no sooner published than Sir Timothy suppressed it, Shelley was determined to fulfill her pledge to immortalize her beloved husband’s name.
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Poe’s Literary Reputation

1981
In 1841 Poe met an influential editor named Rufus W. Griswold, a clergyman who had drifted into editorial work in New York. He seems to have been something of a literary charlatan and had acquired a reputation for himself as an editor and author. Poe was unwise enough to appoint Griswold as his literary executor, not realising that Griswold in fact ...
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