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This dimension links a literary work to the person who wrote it. Wikipedia describes Pride and Prejudice as "a novel by English author Jane Austen," written when Austen "was aged 20-21" though not published until years later. Browsing by author gathers every work credited to one writer's hand.

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1. Historical fiction (Wikipedia)

Historical fiction, lead section, early-19th-century foundations sentence

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Historical fiction as a contemporary Western literary genre has its foundations in the early-19th-century works of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries in other national literatures such as the Frenchman Honore de Balzac, the American James Fenimore Cooper, and later the Russian Leo Tolstoy.

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