🧠 Jane Austen Quiz

Pride and Prejudice was originally titled 'First Impressions' when Austen wrote it in 1796–97, before being revised and published under its iconic name in 1813.

Jane Austen was born in Steventon on 16 December 1775, where her father George Austen served as rector — she lived there for the first 25 years of her life.

The five Bennet sisters — Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia — reflect the real pressures of Regency-era society, where daughters needed to marry well since they could not inherit their father's entailed estate.

Northanger Abbey specifically parodies Ann Radcliffe's 'The Mysteries of Udolpho', with heroine Catherine Morland becoming so obsessed with Gothic novels that she imagines sinister secrets lurking in every old abbey.

Bath was the height of Regency-era fashion, and Austen herself lived there from 1801 to 1806 — though she reportedly disliked the city, a sentiment that subtly colours its portrayal in both Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.

Longbourn is described as a modest entailed estate in Hertfordshire, meaning it must pass to the nearest male heir — the odious Mr Collins — which is the driving anxiety behind Mrs Bennet's obsessive quest to marry off her five daughters.

Austen used the anonymous credit 'By a Lady' partly due to the social conventions of the time, which made it unusual for women to publish under their own names — she continued publishing anonymously throughout her lifetime.

Austen completed 'First Impressions' in 1797, but her father's attempt to have it published was rejected — it wasn't until 1813 that it appeared as Pride and Prejudice.

Austen wrote only 11 chapters of Sanditon before her death in 1817, but the fragment was enough to inspire a popular ITV television adaptation centuries later.

Austen is believed to have originally written 'Elinor and Marianne' as an epistolary novel — told entirely through letters — before revising it into the narrative form we know today.