Complex sentence: Historian Dorothy McMillan writes that "the novel was one of the earlier works of the period to feature an ideal community" though "the writing is marred by sententiousness and relentless intellectual name-dropping".
Split into simpler sentences: Historian Dorothy McMillan writes that "the novel was one of the earlier works of the period to feature an ideal community". However McMillan argues that "the writing is marred by sententiousness and relentless intellectual name-dropping".