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What friend of Charlotte Brontë wrote the first biography on her after her death?
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Drumble is a large fictional town near to which smaller one?
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What is the stepsister's name in Wives and Daughters?
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Who wrote a biography of Charlotte Brontë?
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658 times |
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Which novel was Elizabeth Gaskell working on at the time of her sudden death?
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240 times |
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109 times (16.9%) |
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Elizabeth Gaskell, author of novels such as Mary Barton and North and South, also wrote a famous biography of which literary figure?
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395 times (31.4%) |
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Which of these 19th-century women writers was not only the favourite novelist of Queen Victoria, but also worked actively towards the preservation of the historical buildings in Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon? (In addition to having been immensely popular and notoriously eccentric).
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Which one of these women novelists was NOT a good friend of Henry James?
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86 times |
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33 times (25.8%) |
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19th century philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewes caused a stir when he went against Victorian conventions to engage in a permanent extramarital relationship with ...
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216 times (45.8%) |
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In 1880 Henry James visited the widower of a recently deceased novelist whom he greatly admired. The novelist in question was married only a very short time to this man but, James said: "He, poor fellow, is left very much lamenting; but my private impression is that if she had not died, she would have killed him. He couldn't keep up the intellectual pace -- all Dante and Goethe, Cervantes and the Greek tragedians. As he said himself, it was a carthorse yoked to a racer: several hours a day spent in reading aloud the most immortal of works." Who is the remarkable novelist in question?
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47 times (40.9%) |
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Cynthia Ozick's story "Puttermesser Paired" has as its intertext the love relations of a famous 19th-century novelist. In this scene Rupert Rabeeno is reading to his wife-to-be, Ruth Puttermesser:
"She watched him reconstruct Johnny Cross. Johnny Cross was anyhow a puzzlement. No one knew him really. He was expected to be 'deep' and he wasn't. He was handsome and genial and athletic and rich. He was no intellectual, though he worked at it gamely, the same plucky way he chopped down a clump of trees or devotedly smacked at a tennis ball. He was a tremendous swimmer. He wasn't even remotely a writer, but he did turn out one astonishing book -- astonishingly chiefly because Johnny Cross had written it: '__________'s Life.' The title was as obvious and direct as he was. He plugged away at it after she died: it was a genuflection."
Who was the subject of Cross' biography, and his one-time wife?
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Which novelist was, according to Henry James, "both sweet and superior, and has a delightful expression in her large, long, pale, equine face. I had my turn at sitting beside her and being conversed with in a low, but most harmonious tone; and bating a tendency to 'aborder' only the highest themes I have no fault to find with her"?
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38 times (34.2%) |
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41 times (36.9%) |
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Which book did Elizabeth Gaskell NOT write?
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240 times |
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161 times (38.9%) |
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79 times (19.1%) |
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What three books by Elizabeth Gaskell constitute the movie "Cranford" which was released in 2007?
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50 times |
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33 times (29.5%) |
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17 times (15.2%) |
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62 times (55.4%) |
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Which book was NOT written by Elizabeth Gaskell?
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89 times |
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68 times (58.6%) |
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21 times (18.1%) |
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