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Entries: Age of the Romantic Movement - "During these thirty-four years... Jane Austen wrote her novels of manners..." Gothic Novel - "It is also applied to a host of currently popular tales of 'damsels in distress' in strange and terrifying locales-- a type ridiculed as early as Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey." Novel - "The nineteenth century saw the flowering of the English novel as an instrument portraying middle-class society. Jane Austen produced novels of manners..." Novel of Manners - Appears in list of authors of novels of manners. Romantic Period (English) - "It was a great age for the novel, producing...Austen..." Romanticism - "...and its complete triumph was reserved for the early years of the nineteenth century (...Austen...)" Satire - Appears in list of authors whom "all have made extended fictional narratives the vehicles for a wide-ranging and powerfully effective satiric treatment of human beings and institutions." Well-Made Novel - "Jane Austen was remarkably successful with the well-made novel,..."