Self Test Flashcards by Ethan Mortola | Brainscape

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conservative essayist, biographer, and novelist

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G.K. Chesterton

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Irish socialist-satirist

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George Bernard Shaw

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leader of the Irish Renaissance

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W.B. Yeats

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Georgian poet with much maritime experience

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John Masefield

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Welsh poet, a master of the English language

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Dylan Thomas

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writer of “slice-of-life” stories

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Katherine Masefield

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best known of the late-Victorian “hearties”

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Rudyard Kipling

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father of modern biography

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Lytton Strachey

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author-illustrator of children’s literature

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Beatrix Potter

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father of the modern psychological novel

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Joseph Conrad

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outspoken and controversial Cambridge University professor

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C.S. Lewis

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novelist in the naturalistic style

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Thomas Hardy

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science fiction writer

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H.G. Wells

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an aesthete influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites

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Oscar Wilde

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leading modernist poet and outspoken Christian

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T.S. Eliot

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World War II hero and Nobel prizewinner

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Sir Winston Churchill

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The Time Machine

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H.G. Wells

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Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw

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“The Waste Land”

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T.S. Eliot

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Ulysses

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James Joyce

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The Garden Party

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Katherine Mansfield

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The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy

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Recessional

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Rudyard Kipling

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A Shrosphire Lad

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A.E. Housman

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Under Milk Wood

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Dylan Thomas

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Father Brown mystery novels

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G.K. Chesterton

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“The Hound of Heaven”

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Francis Thompson

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

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Beatrix Potter

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The Second World War

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Sir Winston Churchill

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Lord Jim

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Joseph Conrad

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C.S. Lewis

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The Screwtape Letters

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John Galsworthy

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The Forsyte Saga

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Sea-Fever

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John Masefield