Regency Novel - Major Writers of Classic Regency Fiction

Major Writers of Classic Regency Fiction

  • Jane Austen (1775–1817)
  • Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849)
  • Susan Ferrier (1782–1854)
  • ETA Hoffman (1776–1822)
  • Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
  • Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
  • Johann David Wyss (1743–1818)

Read more about this topic:  Regency Novel

Famous quotes containing the words major, writers, classic and/or fiction:

    We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
    Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

    I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.
    Philip Roth (b. 1933)