Which English Victorian author created iconic characters such as Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge, David Copperfield, and Miss Havisham across fifteen major serialized novels?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: A. Charles Dickens

  1. Step 1: Publishing his works in monthly serial installments, this author combined vivid social melodrama with passionate campaigns against child labor, workhouses, and legal corruption.
  2. Step 2: Charles Dickens captured the gritty realities of industrial Victorian London in masterworks including 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'Bleak House', and 'Great Expectations'.
Answer
Charles Dickens
Why not the others: 'William Makepeace Thackeray' Thackeray was a contemporary Victorian satirist best known for his 1848 novel 'Vanity Fair' featuring Becky Sharp; 'Anthony Trollope' Anthony Trollope was a prolific Victorian novelist famous for the Chronicles of Barsetshire and Palliser political novels; 'Thomas Hardy' Thomas Hardy was a Victorian naturalist novelist who wrote tragic pastoral dramas like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Jude the Obscure'.

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