| Group | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Victorian Age | Charles Dickens | 86%
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| Nor Romantic / nor Victorian | Jane Austen | 81%
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| The Romantics | William Wordsworth | 81%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Mary Shelley | 80%
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| The Romantics | John Keats | 76%
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| The Romantics | Lord Byron | 76%
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| The Romantics | Percy Shelley | 76%
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| The 20th century | Oscar Wilde | 56%
|
| The Romantics | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 56%
|
| Victorian Age | George Eliot | 54%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | William Blake | 54%
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| The 20th century | Thomas Hardy | 53%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Jonathan Swift | 51%
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| Victorian Age | Alfred Tennyson | 49%
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| The 20th century | James Joyce | 47%
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| The 20th century | Virginia Woolf | 47%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Daniel Defoe | 42%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | Alexander Pope | 39%
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| The 20th century | Robert Louis Stevenson | 37%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | Samuel Johnson | 34%
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| The Romantics | Sir Walter Scott | 32%
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| Victorian Age | Robert Browning | 31%
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| The 20th century | Rudyard Kipling | 31%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Henry Fielding | 29%
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| Victorian Age | Lewis Carroll | 29%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | Robert Burns | 27%
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| The 20th century | George Bernard Shaw | 24%
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| The 20th century | Joseph Conrad | 22%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Laurence Sterne | 20%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Samuel Richardson | 20%
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| The 20th century | H. G. Wells | 19%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | Oliver Goldsmith | 17%
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| Victorian Age | Matthew Arnold | 14%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Ann Radcliffe | 12%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | Thomas Gray | 12%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Tobias Smollett | 12%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Horace Walpole | 10%
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| Victorian Age | Bronte sisters | 8%
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| The 20th century | Walter Pater | 8%
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| Victorian Age | Herbert Spencer | 7%
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| Augustan Age - prose | Edward Gibbon | 5%
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| Victorian Age | John Ruskin | 5%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | William Cowper | 5%
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| Victorian Age | Edward Fitzgerald | 3%
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| Augustan Age - poetry | George Crabbe | 3%
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| The Romantics | Thomas Moore | 3%
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| Augustan Age - prose | William Godwin | 3%
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| The 20th century | J. Galsworthy | 2%
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| Victorian Age | Thomas Carlyle | 2%
|