Match List I with List II

List I	List II
A) George Meredith	I The Virginians
B) George Eliot	II Scenes of Clerical Life
C) Charlotte Brontëe	III Evan Harrington
D) William Makepeace Thackeray	IV The Professor

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct option is A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I.

To understand why this is the correct matching, let's break down the works associated with each of the Victorian authors listed in List I:

1. George Meredith (A) matches with Evan Harrington (III):
Evan Harrington is a novel by the English novelist and poet George Meredith, first serialized in 1860. The story is a social comedy that draws heavily on Meredith's own family background and experiences.

2. George Eliot (B) matches with Scenes of Clerical Life (II):
Scenes of Clerical Life is the debut work of fiction by Mary Ann Evans, published under her famous pen name George Eliot. It is a collection of three novellas that first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857.

3. Charlotte Brontë (C) matches with The Professor (IV):
The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë. It was initially rejected by publishers during her lifetime but was published posthumously in 1857.

4. William Makepeace Thackeray (D) matches with The Virginians (I):
The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, published in monthly parts between 1857 and 1859. It serves as a sequel to his work The History of Henry Esmond.

By matching each author from List I with their corresponding work in List II, we arrive at the relationship: A-III, B-II, C-IV, and D-I.