Which English author wrote the 1813 romantic novel of manners 'Pride and Prejudice', charting the stormy relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and the wealthy Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D. Jane Austen

  1. Step 1: Renowned for her sharp social satire, irony, and realistic portrayal of the 19th-century English landed gentry, this author published her early works anonymously.
  2. Step 2: Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' explores social status, financial necessity, and personal self-knowledge through the witty Elizabeth Bennet and the proud aristocrat Mr. Darcy.
Answer
Jane Austen
Why not the others: 'Charlotte Brontë' Charlotte Brontë wrote the 1847 Gothic romance 'Jane Eyre', depicting the life of an independent governess at Thornfield Hall; 'Emily Brontë' Emily Brontë wrote the 1847 passionate tragedy 'Wuthering Heights', centered on Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw on the Yorkshire moors; 'George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)' George Eliot wrote realist Victorian masterpieces including 'Middlemarch' (1871) and 'Silas Marner' (1861).

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