Which eminent Victorian novelist chronicled the social inequities and industrial hardships of 19th-century England in Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Charles Dickens
- Step 1: Charles Dickens was the preeminent Victorian novelist whose serialized fiction exposed child labor, workhouses, and legal corruption. Step 2. His indelible characters and moral social conscience established him as a global literary icon. Answer: Charles Dickens. Why not the others: Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair; Trollope wrote the Barsetshire chronicles; Hardy wrote tragic Wessex pastoral novels.
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