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1. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England in what year?
2. Jane Austen was the daughter of a country parson, and was the second youngest child of the family. How many sisters did Jane Austen have?
3. 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?
4. A trip to Bath to visit her Uncle James and Aunt Cassandra Perrot is generally accepted to be the catalyst for one of her earliest novels. By which name do we know this novel?
5. 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"?
6. 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?
7. In which two novels did Jane Austen's admiration of the Navy show much evidence?
8. 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?
9. In the 1995 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?
10. 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).
11. Jane wrote one epistolary form novel, entitled "Lady Susan", which was also published in epistolary form.
12. 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?
13. During her lifetime Jane Austen lived in Steventon, Bath, Southampton and Chawton.
14. 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 niece, Anna. What is the name of the novel as we know it now?
15. 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?
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