Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy are central characters. This topic is part of Literature within Literature. This page currently draws on 11 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Jane Austen trivia questions
Jane Austen wrote which novel featuring Elizabeth Bennet?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
Bonus fact: Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy are central characters.
Austen was a novelist from which country?
Answer: England
Bonus fact: She wrote during the Georgian and Regency eras.
Which Austen novel begins with the wealthy Dashwood family and sisters Elinor and Marianne?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility
Bonus fact: The sisters represent contrasting approaches to emotion and reason.
Who is the heroine of Jane Austen's Persuasion?
Answer: Anne Elliot
Bonus fact: Persuasion was Jane Austen's last completed novel.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was first published in what year?
Answer: 1813
Bonus fact: The novel was originally published in three volumes.
Which Jane Austen novel famously pokes fun at a young woman’s obsession with "The Mysteries of Udolpho"?
Answer: Northanger Abbey
Bonus fact: Austen’s Catherine Morland lets Gothic reading shape how she interprets ordinary people and places.
A phrase from "Cecilia" helped inspire the title of which later Jane Austen novel?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
Bonus fact: A passage referring to "pride and prejudice" is often noted as a possible influence on Austen’s famous title.
Who wrote Emma?
Answer: Jane Austen
Bonus fact: 1815 novel by Jane Austen.
Who wrote the novel "Cecilia"?
Answer: Frances Burney
Bonus fact: Burney’s novels helped shape the English novel of manners before Jane Austen’s career.
Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?
Answer: Jane Austen
Bonus fact: Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813.
Which future novelist was among the subscribers listed for "Camilla" before publication?
Answer: Jane Austen
Bonus fact: Austen admired Burney and learned from the earlier novelist’s treatment of young women navigating society.