"authorling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From author + -ling.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies, page 263:",
          "text": "It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]",
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        "A young or insignificant author."
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  "etymology_text": "From author + -ling.",
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    {
      "form": "authorlings",
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