Gotta speak up for my classic fave, Anthony Trollope. Well observed & delicately nuanced social fiction of the high Victorian era, often with an element of politics and a focus on the nexus of money, class & gender. Also social comedy, and fox hunting. (Trollope loved to hunt, and indulged himself with at least one good hunting scene in almost every book, sometimes more. And they're not all the same - as a good writer, he always finds opportunities for character development!) He covers some of the same ground as Dickens, but not as melodramatic. And his characters -- even the most virtuous & villainous ones -- are 3-dimensional, not caricatures. Also unlike Dickens, he writes women as fully developed and complex as the men, & their stories & agency are central.
He was very prolific too. A model of the professional writer: he got up early every morning, wrote 4 long pages an hour for 3 hours (with a timer), then went to work at his day job (senior bureaucrat at the Post Office). If, during a writing session, he happened to reach The End of a book before his 3 hours were up, he didn't knock off early & celebrate, he just took a fresh piece of paper and started Chapter One of the next book! That's how you write 45+ novels and more in 35 years.
Not all the books are equally good, of course. Among my favorites: The Palliser novels - Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister, & The Duke's Children. The Barsetshire novels are another sequence, somewhat different in tone: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, A Small House in Allingham, and The Last Chronicle of Barset. And some stand-alones worth reading: He Knew He Was Right, Orley Farm, The Way We Live Now, The American Senator, The Vicar of Bullhampton.