The document summarizes Atalanta Tedesco's essay on literary influences on British author A.S. Byatt. It discusses how Byatt was influenced by Iris Murdoch, Marcel Proust, and George Eliot. Byatt's novels, like Murdoch's, are textured works that assume the reader has time to ponder words and ideas. The document also briefly mentions other British authors like Margaret Drabble and Faye Weldon that Byatt has been compared to.