The Life and Works of Jane Austen
The Life and Works of Jane Austen
Born on December 16th 1775 Jane Austen, in her short life time, wrote some of the best loved and most famous books in English Literature.
Born on December 16th 1775 Jane Austen, in her short life time, wrote some of the best loved and most famous books in English Literature.
Which English county was Austen born in?
How many children were there in the Austen family?
Which disease nearly killed Jane when she was eight years old?
Jane’s earliest known writings – the Juvenilia – are believed to have been written from what age?
Which short epistolary novel was Austen’s first mature, finished work?
What was the original title of Pride and Prejudice?
Northanger Abbey is a satire on which type of popular novel?
Upon her father’s retirement which city did the Austen family move to in 1800?
Which novel was published first; Sense and Sensibility or Mansfield Park?
Which was the last novel to be published during Austen’s lifetime?
What was the name of the novel Austen was working on when illness forced her to stop work?
Where is Austen buried?
Which novel centres on the Vernon family?
Which Dashwood sister is the elder: Elinor or Marianne
How many daughters are Mr and Mrs Bennet ‘blessed’ with?
Which novel has Catherine Morland as its protagonist?
In which novel does poor Fanny Price get sent to live with her rich relatives?
Which Austen heroine is taken in by the dashing John Willoughby?
Netherfield Park, Longbourn and Pemberley are all locations in which Austen novel?
Which of Austen’s novels criticises wealth made from the slave trade?
Which novel uses Lyme Regis as one of its famous settings?
What is Sanditon?
Which heroine says, ‘My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.’
Which novel does this quote come from: ‘It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...’
Which novel begins seven years after a broken engagement?