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Quiz
- Whose first novel "Sketches by Boz" was published anonymously in 1833?
- Who wrote the novel "Jane Eyre" in 1847?
- Who is the author of the books "The Invisible Man" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau"?
- British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray is particularly known for which 1848 novel that follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley?
- Mary Ann Evans is better known by which pen name?
- Can you name Oscar Wilde's only novel?
- Anna Sewell is well known as the author of which 1877 novel, her only published work?
- Who wrote "Wuthering Heights"?
- Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous works include "Treasure Island" written in 1883 and which 1886 book?
- "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. It was included in which 1871 novel?
- Which author has a commemorative blue plaque on a house in Royal Crescent, Whitby, where he stayed between 1890 and 1896?
- Which writer, often referred to as the "Last Victorian", is best remembered for the novel "Lorna Doone"?
- Which writer's best known novels include Cranford, and North and South, both have been adapted for BBC television?
- Which event of 25 October 1854, was the subject of an Alfred, Lord Tennyson narrative poem?
- Which female writer's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died just eleven days after giving birth to her?
- Which British novelist worked at the General Post Office from 1840-1859?
- Which writer was born in Higher Bockhampton, near the market town of Dorchester, on 2 June 1840?
- Which prolific Victorian novelist is best remembered for "The Moonstone", which was an early example of a modern detective novel?
- Who published "A Book of Nonsense" in 1846?
- Which author wrote about the life of the adventurer Allan Quatermain?
- Who wrote the children's book, "The Railway Children"?
- Which English writer and literary critic, is best known for his novel "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"?
- What's the most famous poem from Robert Browning's collection of English poems entitled "Dramatic Lyrics"?
- Which Scottish writer and academic moved to London in 1834 and wrote the three volume historical work "The French Revolution"?
- Thomas Hughes is most famous for his semi-autobiographical novel published in 1857. Can you name it?
Answers
- Charles Dickens
- Charlotte Bronte
- H.G. Wells
- Vanity Fair
- George Eliot
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Black Beauty
- Emily Bronte
- Kidnapped
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Bram Stoker (author of the 1897 Gothic novel "Dracula")
- R. D. Blackmore
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Mary Shelley's (author of Frankenstein)
- Anthony Trollope
- Thomas Hardy
- Wilkie Collins
- Edward Lear
- H. Rider Haggard (in King Solomon's Mines)
- Edith Nesbit
- Thomas De Quincey
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Thomas Carlyle
- Tom Brown's School Days