Celebrated Israeli novelist, S. Y. Agnon draws on techniques perfected by Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Mann to contrast the hero's romantic longings with the interests in bourgeois society.
(1) Possibly a theatrical manager, Thomas ('Jupiter') Harris at Covent Garden or George Colman at the Haymarket, though Boaden records no refusal of a play of hers at this date; or possibly a member of her rather unfortunate family, ...
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Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on thequestion of a woman's "proper education," and her sureness of touch and subtlety of characterization prefigure Jane Austen's work.
A Simple StoryBy Mrs. Inch bald