In the following passage some of the words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

When Jane died (1)__________ 1850, she was called "one of the most distinguished novelists (2)_______ England has produced" and "the first who (3)_______ that beautiful kind of fiction, the historical romance." The Porter sisters' careers ended (4)_______ as the Brontë sisters were getting started in the early Victorian (5)_______.