Before Colette, the female writers of France had been aristocrats, from Mme de Lafayette to Anne de Noailles; there were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters, perhaps because there were almost no clergymen’s daughters.
were no Jane Austens or
were not Jane Austens or
was not Jane Austen nor the
was not a Jane Austen or the
was no Jane Austen or no
注意后面是sisters...
Jane Austens根据后面选项对比可知是复数,故用there were
idiom: there were no X's or Y's.