19th-century english novelists

H. G. Wells

English writer

Anthony Trollope

English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era

William Makepeace Thackeray

British novelist, author and illustrator

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction

Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet

Elizabeth Gaskell

English novelist, biographer and short story writer

George Eliot

English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era

Charles Dickens

English writer and social critic

Wilkie Collins

English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel

Lewis Carroll

English writer of children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass