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 Austen, Jane
Sense and Sensibility. This novel originally went by a different name.
typhus. Many characters in Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre" died from disease while at school. (Until about 1850 death from disease at boarding schools was shockingly common).
Tom Lefroy. His family found Jane unsuitable, believing that he should marry a richer woman.
First Impressions. "Pride and Prejudice" was submitted to a publisher without success under its original name.
1805. He had moved his family to Bath in 1801, in an attempt to restore his failing health. However, he died just four years later.
Addison's disease. John F. Kennedy suffered from the same disease.
Winchester Cathedral. Since her novels were published anonymously, her identity as the author was not known until after her death.
Prince Regent . She even dedicated a book to this person.
eight. Jane was the youngest girl, though not the youngest child.
1775. Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire, England. She lived in a pleasantly rural area with an affectionate and loving family. Jane had six brothers and one sister.
Minister. The Reverend George Austen was an Anglican clergyman. He was the Rector of Steventon, Hampshire, and also of Deane, Hampshire. The Austen family lived in Steventon Rectory, and Jane was born there.
Cassandra. Cassandra was nearly three years older than Jane. Their mother was also called Cassandra.
Godmersham Park. The first drafts of these books were written at Godmersham Park, the home of Jane's niece, Anna LeFroy. Jane spent just over two months there, and had a lot of quiet time to write. In other words, she wrote the first drafts of three novels in a two-month period? What a pace!
Her elder sister. Jane and her sister had a vast correspondence which can still be read today. I recommend a version with notes, as they used a lot of shorthand and refer to people about whom we know nothing. There exist some letters to her brother Francis and to her sister-in-law Fanny Knight, but none that I know of to her childhood friends Alethea and Catherine Bigg.
Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott was an ardent supporter of the magazine but refused to be its editor. Its reviews of "Emma" were among its very first ever. In later years, "The Quarterly Review" gave terrible reviews to Dickens; he certainly would never have been allowed to write for them!
1775. She was born December 16, 1775.
1. This sister was older than she and figured very largely in JA's life.
| Like many women of her day, Jane Austen was a prolific letter writer. The letters that have survived have been published and show her razor wit. Though she corresponded with many people, the person she corresponded most with was whom? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Cassandra. By far the bulk of her surviving letters were to her sister Cassandra. Before Cassandra died, according to the custom of the day, she destroyed or censored many of the letters.
Northanger Abbey. A spoof on the then popular Gothic "horrid" novels, it was submitted and accepted by a publisher, Crosby & Co., in 1803.
| Jane Austen's novels underwent style and title changes before being published. Which novel is thought to have been originally written in epistolary form and was first called "First Impressions"? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Pride and Prejudice. The epistolary form of novel writing is when the novel and plot unfolds in a series of letters between the characters. This form was losing popularity and when JA re-wrote "First Impressions" she dropped the epistolary form and changed the title to "Pride and Prejudice".
| Jane Austen's immediate family was filled with intelligent, enterprising and hard-working people. She had two brothers who were sailors who rose to the rank of Admiral. Two of her novels made plain her admiration for the Navy. Which of her brothers were they? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Francis and Charles. Francis (Frank) became Admiral of the Fleet at the age of 89. Charles, Jane's 'particular little brother', rose to the rank of Admiral before he died of cholera on board his ship at the age of 73. Read more about these fascinating men in a biography by John and Edith Hubback (descendents of Frank Austen) entitled "Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers".
Persuasion/Mansfield Park. "Persuasion" is filled with solid naval men with much to be admired. Captain Wentworth, Captain Benwick and Captain Harville figured strongly in that novel. In "Mansfield Park", the heroine of the novel adores her sailor brother, William.
| Screenwriters often change circumstances and names or delete characters when adapting novels to film. Which of the answers below was NOT a change made from the novel to the screen adaptation? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Persuasion (1995 starring Amanda Root): Sir Walter Elliott is not vain in the novel but is in the 1995 film. Sir Walter Elliot is vain in both the novel and the film.
| In the 1985 film "Sense and Sensibility", starring Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson, who screams, "Viper in my bosom!" when she hears of her brother's engagement to a woman with neither fortune nor sense? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Fanny Ferrars Dashwood. Fanny Ferrars Dashwood screams this at Lucy Steele when Lucy confides she's secretly engaged to Fanny's brother Edward.
| The first two of Jane Austen's novels which she submitted for publication were met with disdain by the publishers. One was turned down out of hand without being read, the other was bought but never published during Jane's lifetime. Which two novels were they? (I've used the names we know them by now). | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey. Silly publishers! "Pride and Prejudice" (then known as First Impressions") was dismissed out of hand and returned unopened by the publisher Cadell in 1797. "Northanger Abbey" (then known as "Susan") was bought by Cosby and Co. publishers in 1803. When they didn't publish it, it was subsequently bought back from them by her brother Henry and it was published by Murray in 1817 after JA's death.
| There was a particular place that Jane Austen visited which she loved. She writes of it in one of her novels. There is a great quote about this place in the novel, "...and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of..." What is the name of this place? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Lyme. JA loved visiting Lyme, which is now called Lyme Regis. She writes fondly of it in her personal letters and in "Persuasion".
| Jane Austen died before she could finish a novel she'd intended to call "The Brothers". Subsequent to her death, it has been finished by a number of people, including her own neice, Anna. What is the name of the novel as we know it now? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Sanditon. JA was seriously ill when she wrote the opening chapters of "The Brothers"/"Sanditon". She had less than six months to live and the novel was left incomplete in the middle of chapter 12 when she died. Her family renamed the novel and it has been finished by 'continuators' and published several times.
| Jane Austen died on 18 July, 1817, at the age of only 41. She'd been moved to another city to be close to her physician and was buried in that city's well known cathedral of the same name. What is the name of that city and cathedral? | Jane Austen's Life, Novels and Film Adaptations
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Winchester. There is no mention of her having been an authoress on her gravestone, though it does extoll the benevolence of her heart, the sweetness of her temper and the extraordinary endowments of her mind.
Steventon, Hampshire, England. Jane Austen was born in 1775 in the Steventon rectory. Steventon is a small village in Hampshire, England.
| When Jane was 25 years old, her father made the sudden decision to retire and remove to a larger city. To which city did the family move? (Hint - this city also features in two of her novels). | Jane Austen's Biography
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Bath. Austen family tradition holds that JA and her sister had been away visiting when the decision was made by her parents to move to Bath. When JA heard the news she fainted, which was very out of character for her. Her parents liked Bath. Not only had they been married there at Walcot Church, Mrs. Austen's brother and his wife lived there part of the year. It seemed an excellent place to retire to, but Jane herself did not care for living in a city and wasn't enthusiastic about Bath.
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