Which one of the following statements is not correct?
Jane Austen was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans.
The hero of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is an adventure and slave trader
The novel originated in Europe at a time when it was colonising the rest of the world
The modern novel form developed in India in the 19th century
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Jane Austen was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans.
Social changes in Britain which led to an increase in women readers.
What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser?
After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people.
Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause.
Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in the readers of the novel in the eighteenth century Europe.
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The Oriya novel
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Jane Austen's portrayal of women
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The picture of the new middle class which the novel Pariksha-Guru portrays.
Discuss some of the social changes in nineteenth-century Britain which Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens wrote about.
Summarise the concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels. What does this suggest about how women were viewed?
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