Which statements are correct?
- A. The Kailyard school produced sentimental, idealised novels of Scottish small-town life in the 1890s.
- B. 'Kailyard' means cabbage patch, suggesting parochial concerns.
- C. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a lower-class detective novel titled Peter Pan.
- D. J. I. M. Stewart's Lament for a Maker features Lord Peter Wimsey.
- E. Barrie's A Window in Thrums is the best-known Kailyard text.
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Correct answer: A. A, B, and E only
Explanation
Kailyard writers include Barrie (A Window in Thrums, 1889), Ian Maclaren and S. R. Crockett. Peter Pan is Barrie's; Lament for a Maker (1938, as Michael Innes) features Inspector Appleby; Lord Peter Wimsey is Sayers's aristocratic sleuth.
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