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The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897

The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897, Page 7

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Carlyle's influence on the whole was not so great as that of Thackeray. The reader of "The Idylls of the King" were but a limited [number?] when compared with the readers of "Jane Eyre"; nor can Mrs. Browning's finest poems pretend to attract as many readers and admirers, even among people of taste and education, as were suddenly [illegible] by "Adam Bede". Yet our English novelists are not by any measure the most cosmopolitan in the public they address. The English authors are read in France as George Sand, and Victor Hugo, and Dumas, and Zola have been read in England. All this shows how decisively the current of public feeling at present sets in favor of prose fictions.
 
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