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It was a period when the urban middle and lower classes became not only the subject of fiction - Wells's Tono-Bungay and Mr Polly, Galsworthy's Fraternity, Bennett's stories of the Five Towns - but a substantial part of its readership. Genres such as spy stories, Ruritanian novels, and detective fiction were invented or suddenly came into their own, each with its following of readers. An unprecedented number of women began to publish - they represent nearly half the author-entries here - though many of them chose to do so under noms de plume. From James's The Ambassadors to Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, from J. H. 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