English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1444 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Matching Victorian Novels and Novelists
The idea
Sort by author. Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre; Emily, Wuthering Heights; Anne, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair; Gaskell Mary Barton and North and South; George Eliot Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch; Trollope the Barsetshire novels; Collins The Woman in White and The Moonstone; Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess and Jude; Stevenson Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde; Carroll Alice; Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray. In prose, Carlyle wrote Sartor Resartus, Ruskin Modern Painters, Mill On Liberty, Newman the Apologia, Arnold Culture and Anarchy and Pater The Renaissance. In drama, Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest; Shaw Arms and the Man and Pygmalion.
In practice
Author by author, then prose and drama.
Where people slip
The three Brontës wrote different novels, and George Eliot is not a man. Check the author's real identity.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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