Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: The first was Oxford Shakespearean scholar Andrew Cecil Bradley 's 1911 essay . This essay was `` generally ( largely ) regarded ( seen ) as the starting-point for the serious academic approach to Jane Austen '' .
Simplified: The first was Oxford Shakespearean scholar A. C. Bradley 's 1911 essay , `` generally regarded as the starting-point for the serious academic approach to Jane Austen '' .