Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who published numerous novels, novellas, short stories, plays, and nonfiction works over the course of his career. Some of his other famous novels include Oliver Twist (1837-1839), David Copperfield (1849-1850), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1860-1861).
Wilkie Collins was seen as Dickens's protege, and his novels The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868) are crime/detective novels, following the tradition established by Inspector Bucket in Bleak House.
Dickens was not alone in using fiction to criticize the injustices of English society. Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1854–1855) are strong...
