Jane Austen

Although she is the author of five novels, Pride and Prejudice is probably the one Jane is best
known for and your love for this book places her in a solid fifth position in our English authors
poll

Charles Dickens
Regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, Dickens is renowned for his larger than
life characters and his unflinching portrayals of Victorian England

George Orwell
Although born in India, Eric Arthur Blair, the real name of George Orwell makes it into this poll
as an English author as that is how he is identified by the literary world and the fact that India at
the time of his birth was under British rule.