The Return of the Soldier / Harlequin / The Scarlet Pimpernel / /
Person
Victoria Cross / Desmond Flower / Georgette Heyer / William Gladstone / Florence Barclay / Robert J. C. Young / Bad Modernisms / Mary Ward / Robert Elsmere / Rose / Edith Maude Hull / Fredric Jameson / Pierre Bourdieu / Barbara Cartland / Harold Bloom / Gillian Beer / Katherine Mansfield / Rudyard Kipling / Marie Corelli / Haggard / Jenny Sharpe / Clive Bloom / E. M. Hull / Humphry Ward / Elinor Glyn / George Eliot / Rita Felski / Anna Lombard / Matthew Arnold / /
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author / literary historian / Prime Minister / Artist / detective / individual author / representative / living author / Rider / /
Introduction All fiction contains two primary impulses: the impulse to imitate daily life, and the impulse to transcend it. Gillian Beer, The Romance T