Which of the following writers are called Edwardian novelists?
- A. George Eliot
- B. Arnold Bennett
- C. H. G. Wells
- D. E. M. Forster
- E. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Correct answer: C. B, C and D only
Explanation
Bennett (The Old Wives' Tale, 1908), Wells (Tono-Bungay, 1909) and Forster (Howards End, 1910) flourished under Edward VII (1901–10). Woolf's 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown' calls Bennett, Wells and Galsworthy 'Edwardians'. Eliot and Stevenson are Victorians.
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