Simplify the following text for a Grade 15 native English-speaking person.
Original: Modern Austen scholar William Galperin has noted that `` unlike some of Austen 's lay readers , who recognized her divergence ( difference ) from realistic practice as it had been prescribed and defined at the time , Walter Scott may well have been the first to install Austen as the realist par excellence '' .
Simplified: Modern Austen scholar William Galperin has noted that `` unlike some of Austen 's lay readers , who recognized her divergence from realistic practice as it had been prescribed and defined at the time , Walter Scott may well have been the first to install Austen as the realist par excellence '' .