Jane Austen
1775 – 1817 · United Kingdom · Literature
Free indirect style and the social novel; still the most adapted author in English.
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- Alice Munro
1931 – 2024 · Literature
Free indirect style applied to provincial women's lives runs from Austen to Munro.
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