This pioneer of free indirect discourse and creator of Anne Elliot wrote a novel which opens with the line "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," and ends with the betrothal of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.
In a Rudyard Kipling story, a hairdresser named Humberstall relates his membership in a secret society dedicated to this person. David Lassman wrote a 2007 article chronicling his anonymous submissions of this author's work to publishers, who nearly universally rejected it. Prominent naval officers like Admiral Croft appear in a novel by this author in which Louisa Musgrove suffers a concussion on a seaside staircase at Lyme Regis and the protagonist reunites with Captain (*) Wentworth. This pioneer of free indirect discourse and creator of Anne Elliot wrote a novel which opens with the line "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," and ends with the betrothal of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. For 10 points, name this author of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice.
In a Rudyard Kipling story, a hairdresser named Humberstall relates his membership in a secret society dedicated to this person.
Jane Austen