Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (2) 1810-1819
Beginning in the early years of the novel – as we know and love it – each quiz covers a decade of literary events – 2 questions per year. Births, deaths, publications, events; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and books for children.
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Question of
1810 – Often known as Mrs Gaskell, the writer was born on September 29th of this year. What was her first name?
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Elizabeth
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Mary
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Question of
1810 – Which famous Romantic and radical poet’s first work, Zastrozzi, was published in this year?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Question of
1811 – Jane Austen’s first published novel appears – ‘by a lady’ – in October. Which beloved novel was it?
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Sense and Sensibility
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Emma
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Question of
1811 – One of Charlotte Bronte’s novels, published in the 1840s, is set in this year, which one?
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Shirley
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The Professor
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Question of
1812 – The Swiss Family Robinson was published in this year. Who was the author?
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Johann David Wyss
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Johanna Spyri
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Question of
1812 – ‘A loving heart is the truest wisdom.’ Which giant of English literature was born in humble beginnings in Portsmouth on February 7th?
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Charles Dickens
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George Eliot
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Question of
1813 – Pride and Prejudice is published – who is the first character to speak in it?
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Mrs Bennet
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Mr Bennet
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Question of
1813 – Finish the title of Shelley’s famous poem: Queen Mab: A — Poem.
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Philosophical
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Radical
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Question of
1814 – The first edition of whose fairy tales was published in this year?
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Brothers Grimm
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Charles Perrault
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Question of
1814 – Which overlooked female is the protagonist of Mansfield Park?
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Fanny Price
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Anne Bertram
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Question of
1815 – Which famous novel of the 1840s is set in this year, at the time of the Battle of Waterloo?
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Vanity Fair
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Question of
1815 – Jane Austen’s Emma is published. What is Emma’s surname?
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Woodhouse
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Weston
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Question of
1816 – Which Shakespeare play is performed – for the first time – at the castle of Kronborg in Helsingør, Denmark?
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Hamlet
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Othello
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Question of
1816 – ‘Conventionality is not morality.’ Which famous female novelist was born in Thornton, Yorkshire on April 21st?
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Charlotte Brontë
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Emily Brontë
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Question of
1817 – Jane Austen died on July 18th, how old was she?
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41
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39
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Question of
1817 – Percy and Mary Shelley published one of the first guide books, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour. It ends at which of the great European lakes?
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Geneva
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Garda
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Question of
1818 – What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s revolutionary novel Frankenstein?
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The Modern Prometheus
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The Letters of Captain Walton
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Question of
1818 – ‘I met a traveller from an antique land…’ which Shelley poem does this begin?
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Ozymandias
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To a Skylark
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Question of
1819 – Novelist George Eliot was born on November 22nd, what was her real name?
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Mary Ann Evans
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Elizabeth Chandler
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Question of
1819 – ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness/Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…’ which poet wrote these famous lines?
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John Keats
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William Blake
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