Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?

The correct answer is C, Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813 and follows Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy through the manners and marriages of English country society. Austen also wrote Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park and Persuasion, and her novels turn on family, money and marriage rather than on adventure.

Option A, Charlotte Bronte, wrote Jane Eyre, the story of a governess, and is often placed against Austen in these questions. Option B, Emily Bronte, her sister, wrote the single novel Wuthering Heights. Option D, George Eliot, was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, who wrote Silas Marner, Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss. All four are nineteenth-century English women novelists, so the pairing of title to name must be learnt rather than guessed.