Original: Early in the 20th century, scholars produced a carefully edited collection of her worksâ "the first for any British novelistâ" but it was not until the 1940s that Austen was widely accepted in academia as a "great English novelist".
Simplified: Early in the twentieth century, scholars made a collection of her works (the first for any British novelist). But it was not until the 1940s that Austen was widely accepted as a "great English novelist".