This defining author of his time and place wrote the first English novel with a child protagonist and many famous characters in his famous rags to riches tale..hint, 'More please."

Who wears her wedding dress for the rest of her life after being jilted at the alter? [one the most famous literary characters of all time].

Everything we've come to associate with pirates is because of this book.

These three sisters and authors bring us passionate visions of human love [Edward Rochester & Jane, Heathcliff & Catherine, Arthur Huntington and Helen Graham].

This character eats tiny cakes that say, "EAT ME marked on it in currants."

We've spent 100 years watching adaptations of this monster story - in a class by itself.

This author creates the modern detective story in the book "A Study in Scarlet."

A forgotten step child becomes a modest, proper, kind, beautiful woman...a formula for 19c British literature.

Interestingly, this author is regarded as one of the greatest novelist to write in the English language -he did not speak English fluently until his twenties. He was born with last name of Korzeniowski. He was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe.

This woman authors books with a man's name and wrote what some say is the greatest novel in English Literature.

Far away from the setting of his own turbulent time, this author went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing of this novel with his concerns about contemporary events.
He drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present.

This is a Sci-FI novel but is also a commentary on racism and British Imperialism. The author also wrote the novel, "Time Machine."

This author wrote one novel that explores youth, vanity, art and society's superficial nature.

Bertha Mason

This author is the first to use the word "millionaire" in print.
Hint: Also, he was an Earl and twice Prime Minister.