Description about two major novelists.

1. Jane Austen, Landor and others

2. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
 She was born on 16th December
1775.
 Sense and Sensibility (1811)
 Pride and Prejudice (1813)
 Mansfield Park (1814)
 Emma (1815)
 Northanger Abbey (1818)
 Persuasion (1818)
 Lady Susan (1871)

3.  Very few English writers ever had so narrow a field of
work as Jane Austen. Her whole life was spent in small
country parishes, whose simple country people
became the characters of her novels.
 Such was her literary field, in which the chief duties
were of the household, the chief pleasures in country
gathering, and the chief interests in matrimony. Her
characters are absolutely true to life, and all her work
has the perfection of a delicate miniature painting.

4. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
 During his first five or six years of novel-
writing Scott confined himself to familiar
scenes and characters. The novels which
have a local colour and are based on personal
observations are Guy Mannering, The
Antiquary, Old Mortality and The Heart
of Midlothian. His first attempt at a
historical novel was Ivanhoe (1819) followed
by Kenilworth (1821), Quentin
Durward (1823), and The Talisman (1825). He
returned to Scottish antiquity from time to
time as in The Monastery (1820) and St.
Ronan’s Well (1823).

5.  His chief claim to greatness lies in the fact that he was
the first novelist to recreate the past.
 It was not a record of dry facts, but a stage on which
living men and women played their parts.
 His novels are on a vast scale, covering a very wide
range of action, and are concerned with public rather
than with private interests.

6. References
 English Literature by William J. Long
 Images from Internet