English novelist
UK fiction writer
A person from England who writes novels.
The phrase appears most often in biographical contexts: Jane Austen, English novelist, was born in 1775.
It functions as an identifier or appositive rather than a title, distinguishing nationality and profession in a single compact label.
- period dramaStory set in past
- fictionImagined narrative work
- BildungsromanNovel of formative years
- coming of ageReaching adult status
- ThackerayWrote satirical fiction
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