​The English novel ‘Little Women’ was written by which of the following authors?​

Correct option is C

The correct answer is (C) ​Louisa May Alcott​.

• Louisa May Alcott is most famous for her novel Little Women (1868–69), an autobiographical text about a cheery family of modest means.
• She also submitted work regularly to The Atlantic Monthly and published several short stories and other novels for youth, but none were as successful as Little Women.
• The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.

Incorrect options explanations:

• George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, sought to separate herself, by a male pen name, from what she saw as the frivolity of work among other female writers. She also sought some anonymity due to her relationship with George Lewes, who was legally married, and the separation between her critical and creative work.
• Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 on Pearl Street in New York City, the third of eight children born to Maria Gansevoort Melville and Allan Melville. Both the Gansevoorts and the Melvilles had ties to the American upper class; the families both played important roles during the Revolution.
• Anthony Trollope (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng. —died Dec. 6, 1882, London) was an English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit.