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| Prompt - On this day in 1817, the English novelist Jane Austen, who wrote such classics as Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), died in Winchester, Hampshire, at age 41. Which novel famously opens with the line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”? Pride and Prejudice Fact or Fiction: Jane Austen agreed to marry someone but broke this agreement a day later. Fact - Harris Bigg-Wither (a brother of one of her friends) proposed in 1802. She initially accepted the proposal, but broke it off the next day, largely because despite the financial security it brought, she knew she didn't love him. Tom Lefroy, on the other hand, is rumoured to have been the inspiration into Mr Dacy.... But... it was never meant to be. Which of Jane Austen’s siblings helped publish two of her novels posthumously? Her brother Henry helped publish Northanger Abbey and Persuasion after her death. He is also the reason she is recognised and celebrated as an author as he included a biographical that identified her and listed all her published work. Which of Austen’s novels inspired the popular 1995 movie Clueless? Emma Don’t hate me, but I never really enjoyed reading Austin. Possibly because I had to read it in college. But I acknowledge she is one of the greats of English Literature. |
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