It's NTTVBG over at Other Stories today , but I do realise not everyone may have read the book or want to join in with that and Rocky's a little too worn out after yesterday to be much help, so I'm very grateful to Rhys who kindly e mailed this week offering to compile a literary quiz for future use.
I was in party-planning mode so I jumped at that one and how perfect now that we are four and nearly grown up, to be doing a nice quiet quiz instead of all that raucous musical chairs and pass the parceling for a box of Maltesers, and being sick with party excitement as in previous years.
Now for obvious reasons....
****DON'T put your answers in comments****
though feel free to discuss and speculate if you want...or just to thank the quizmaster, and I'm assured that anything that may look like a typo is meant to be there.
E mail answers to me at dovegreyreader at gmail.com, I'll forward them onto Rhys who will come back to me with the name of some winners eventually, and I'm sure I can come up with a prize or two...
And if anyone else fancies some fiendish quizmaestering I'll bite their hand off too (and send you a book for your trouble) because I love a good quiz and I'm hoping Rhys will do some more too.
Major clue: all were born between 1700-1900
....and wrote novels that are highly thought of.
- I was born during the eighteenth-century and remained very close to my sister all my life. I made up a place called Hartfield and I have been criticised for not writing about Waterloo or the French Revolution and other important events.
- In my novels I depict characters from a full span of social life. I am called a Romantic or a romancer, I had the unfortunate experience of becoming bankrupt – but I overcame that too.
- I wrote in my novels about the most appalling poverty and brutality as well as people who are comfortably off. I have been criticised for having weak plots in my novels, but they made me rich and I became popular and successful, and in fact I became a performer.
- I am a poet as well as a novelist. A lot of nonsense has been written about me and I am portrayed as a ghost-like figure walking endless moorland – this is not true.
- Believe it or not I am remembered today for only one novel. I made up a character called George Osborne (no relation to the George Osborne of UK politics). My family’s literary influence went on for more than one generation: my daughter, my son in law, his daughter and his granddaughter.
- I have my own ideas about things and I wrote my novels to explain them. I did believe in God devoutly once, but I have changed my mind. My life has been full of contradictions and controversy. I was shunned by society in one way and worshipped by society in another.
- My novels were more highly thought of than my plays. I had a clever brother who became an eminent psychologist, but I kept my distance from him. I was closer to my clever sister but she was often ill. Friendships were very important to me and I enjoyed travelling.
- I think I would call myself a Victorian. I accomplished a great deal by writing my novels, my poems, my short stories but I also truly regret aspects of my life. I wish I had had children and been kinder to my first wife. There was such a commotion when I died. I don’t understand how things could go so badly wrong.
- My eyesight was always a problem to me. I was able to describe my homeland more clearly by living abroad. Did I reinvent the novel I’m not so sure I wrote what I thoughtabout.
- They say I was beautiful to look at but I always thought my sister was the beauty. I suppose I would call myself a feminist but what I really saw was unfairness. The sea was always an inspiration to me and I tried to describe it over and over again.
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