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Yes. See also Fleming’s James Bond. Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby. *

This phenomenon is post-WWI and post-WWII and losing the greatest empire in history in a single generation trauma being retconned as if were the historical English perspective.

* Removed previously incorrect statement including Edgar Rice Burroughs who is an American although Tarzan is English

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Edgar Rice Burroughs lived his entire life in the USA, right?

You are right. Updated the post

I'm not sure I understand the Burroughs example as relevant to the UK, but another good illustration is Thomas Hardy. His books sold well but were never seen as consistent with the UK cultural mainstream, and the reaction to Jude the Obscure in 1895 stopped him from writing novels entirely. Yet post-WWI he came to be seen/adopted as a mainstream cultural icon.

Good example of Hardy and the reception reflects the cultural change

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