Jane Austen trivia
Jane Austen Mini Quiz
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Devoted fans of 19th-century author Jane Austen proudly call themselves what name?
The moniker was popularized by Rudyard Kipling's 1924 short story "The Janeites," about a group of World War I artillerymen who bond over her novels.
Author Jane Austen published her first novel Sense and Sensibility using what pen name?
Publishing anonymously protected female writers from public scandal. Her next novel was simply credited to "the author of Sense and Sensibility."
The 1995 teen comedy Clueless modernizes the plot of which Jane Austen novel?
The film transforms Austen's wealthy, 19th-century matchmaker Emma Woodhouse into Cher Horowitz, a privileged but well-meaning Beverly Hills teenager.
Jane Austen wrote her novel Northanger Abbey to mock what popular literary genre?
The novel parodies the era's sensational tales of haunted castles by having its imaginative heroine suspect sinister conspiracies in her mundane life.
The 1995 teen comedy Clueless adapts which Jane Austen novel into a high school setting?
In Clueless, the main character Cher Horowitz serves as the modern equivalent to Austen's Emma Woodhouse, a well-meaning but meddlesome matchmaker.
Jane Austen originally gave her classic romance Pride and Prejudice what working title?
Jane Austen finished the manuscript for First Impressions in 1797, but the title was changed before its 1813 publication as Pride and Prejudice.
Despite writing iconic romance novels about courtship, author Jane Austen never did what?
Jane Austen accepted a marriage proposal from Harris Bigg-Wither in 1802, but she changed her mind and retracted her acceptance the following morning.
The Bank of England publicly honored author Jane Austen in 2017 by doing what?
Austen is the only female author other than Mary Wollstonecraft to be featured on a British banknote since they began depicting historical figures.