Note 351 — Chapter II · LEARNED LADIES IN ENGLAND FROM 1650 TO 1760 (continued 4)
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In my study, Nature in English Poetry between Pope and Wordsworth, in a brief account of fiction from this point of view, I gave John Buncle as the earliest writer of fiction to make abundant use of nature. It is interesting to find Mrs. Collyer, not only antedating him, but excelling him in accuracy and fullness.