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Directions: Visit each of the websites and answer the questions below. Objective: Answer the questions to learn more about Jane Austen and her novels

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 * 1) How many novels did Jane Austen write?
 * 2) Six
 * 3) What genre are Austen’s stories?
 * 4) Romance
 * Click on ‘Basics’ under the ‘Foundation’ Box**
 * 1) Who were Austen’s parents?
 * 2) Reverend Mr. George Austen & Cassandra (Leigh) Austen
 * 3) How many siblings did Austen have?
 * 4) Seven
 * 5) What is her birth date?
 * 6) Saturday, December 16, 1775
 * 7) What is her date of death?
 * 8) Friday, July 18, 1817
 * 1) What age did she write her first novel?
 * 2) 14
 * 3) What novels did she publish in her early twenties?
 * 4) //Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,// and //Northanger Abbey//
 * 5) What book was never completed?
 * 6) //The Watsons//
 * 7) What did Jane attend as a young woman?
 * 8) Balls
 * 9) What year did her parents announce they were moving?
 * 10) 1801
 * 11) Where would they move?
 * 12) Bath
 * 1) What nationality is Austen?
 * 2) British; English
 * 3) How many volumes are in //Sense and Sensibility//?
 * 3
 * 1) Where and by which company was //Pride and Prejudice//published?
 * 2) London: Printed for T. Egerton
 * 3) What are Austen’s works regarded as?
 * 4) Classic
 * 5) Where was her father a clergyman?
 * 6) Steventon
 * 7) What small village did they live in?
 * 8) Hampshire
 * 1) Who was Austen’s rejected suitor?
 * 2) Harris Bigg Wither
 * 3) Besides being involved with romanticism, what was Austen also considered?
 * 4) A realist
 * 5) How did her family feel about her writing?
 * 6) They were supportive
 * 7) How did she publish her books regarding the author’s name?
 * 8) She published them anonymously
 * 9) What problems exist in her books?
 * 10) Inheritance, courtship, morals, and marriage
 * 11) How successful was Austen?
 * 12) She was moderately successful
 * 1) What did Austen’s father do besides serve the church?
 * 2) He ran a school for boys
 * 3) Who was of a higher social class, Austen’s mother or father?
 * 4) Mother
 * 5) In what year did Jane and her sister go to be taught by their aunt?
 * 6) 1783
 * 7) Who was Ann Cooper Cawley’s late husband?
 * 8) The head of an Oxford college
 * 9) Who was Jane educated by other than her aunt?
 * 10) Her father
 * 11) What was Jane’s personality like?
 * 12) She was extremely shy
 * 1) What was outside the room where she wrote?
 * 2) A creaky swinging door
 * 3) What would she do if someone came into her writing room?
 * 4) She would hide her work
 * 5) What sports did she like?
 * 6) Cricket and baseball
 * 7) At least how many times did she rewrite each of her novels?
 * 8) Twice
 * 9) What did her letters reveal to her sister and best friend?
 * 10) She may have had secret romances
 * 11) What age did she die?
 * 12) 42
 * 1) Where does Catherine live?
 * 2) Wiltshire
 * 3) Where do Catherine and Henry’s first meeting occur?
 * 4) The Lower Rooms
 * 5) What does Catherine think happened to Henry’s mother?
 * 6) Mr. Tilney murdered her
 * 7) What is the name of Catherine’s brother who is engaged to Isabella Thorpe?
 * 8) James
 * 9) What rank is Henry’s father?
 * 10) General
 * 11) What city does the majority of the story take place in?
 * 12) Bath
 * 1) Why are the Dashwoods forced to move?
 * 2) Their father died
 * 3) Who does Lucy Steele marry?
 * 4) Robert Ferrars
 * 5) How old are the Dashwood girls?
 * 6) 17 & 19
 * 7) What was the name of the Dashwoods’ estate?
 * 8) Norland Park
 * 9) Who does Willoughby marry?
 * 10) Miss grey
 * 11) What is the name of John Middleton’s estate?
 * 12) Barton Park