Jane Austen's literary influences -- diagram


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   JANE AUSTEN'S LITERARY RELATIONS (Lame ASCII version)

                        The essayists:     Defoe, Fielding,
 The Gothic Novelists   Addison, Steele    Sterne, Richardson
 Walpole, Radcliffe           |           /
               \__       Dr. Johnson     /         Women writers:
                  \__  (prose | style)  /(subject  Burney, Edgeworth
Crabbe, Cowper       \__      |        / matter)___/
              \__       \     |       /     ___/
                 \__ +----------------+ ___/
 Sheridan,          \|      JANE      |/ What accounts for the
 Goldsmith           |     AUSTEN     |  conspicuous absence
  |                  +----------------+  of any influence from
  | (comedy of     ___/       |          the Romantic Poets?
  |  manners)  ___/           |
  |        ___/         George Eliot     Flaubert
  |       /                   \           /
Oscar Wilde                    Henry James

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