Question: Who wrote the 1942 children's novel which was a Christian allegory loosely modelled on the work been cited as the first novel written in English?
Sentence (from "Russian Nights"): The work is a sprawling Gothic 'frame-novel', built on romantic principles inspired by Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis, 1772-1801) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), loosely modelled on the "Noctes Atticae", and which like E.T.A. Hoffmann mixes genres and styles.
Relevant evidence: No