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Quiz
- Who was the eldest of the famous literary Bronte sisters?
- Daphne Du Maurier spent much of her life in which English county, where most of her novels are set?
- Which city was the birthplace of Charles Dickens?
- What's the name of the Northamptonshire country estate of Sir Thomas Bertram in a novel by Jane Austen?
- Which George Eliot novel was described by both Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language?
- Which writer's most famous book is 'Tess of the D’Urbervilles'?
- John Milton wrote ‘Paradise Lost’ in which century?
- Her first book, 'Child Whispers', was published in 1922. She went on to sell more than 600 million books. Who is she?
- In 1907, who became the first English-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known by what pen name?
- Most famous for a series of fictional tales, name the first poet to be buried in poet’s corner in Westminster Abbey?
- Which author was born on 11 September 1885, at Eastwood, a mining village in Nottinghamshire?
- Exposing poverty and published in 1933, 'Down and Out in Paris and London' was the first full-length work by which English author?
- Which author wrote about Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river?
- Which book did Daniel Defoe write three years after writing 'Robinson Crusoe'?
- By what name is archaeological assistant Lady Mallowan better known?
- William Golding is best known for his 1954 debut novel. Can you name it?
- Who spent many years in Bedford prison and wrote his most famous book there? And can you name the title of that book?
- Who wrote several of his books at his home in Chartwell in Kent?
- What does the 'H' and 'G' stand for in H. G. Wells?
- Mrs. Dalloway is a novel published on 14 May 1925, written by which author?
- Who was a close friend of C. S. Lewis and a co-member of the literary discussion group The Inklings?
- Written by J. K. Rowling, 'The Harry Potter' series consists of how many books?
- Ian Fleming is best known for James Bond but also wrote which children's story?
- Which writer from Liverpool won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996 and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize?
- Which novel by E. M. Forster, published in 1910, is about the social conventions and relationships in turn-of-the-century England?
Answers
- Charlotte
- Cornwall
- Portsmouth
- Mansfield Park
- Middlemarch
- Thomas Hardy
- 17th-century
- Enid Blyton
- Rudyard Kipling
- Lewis Carroll
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- D H Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence)
- George Orwell
- Charles Kingsley (the book is 'The Water Babies')
- Moll Flanders (1722)
- Agatha Christie
- Lord of the Flies
- John Bunyan. 'A Pilgrim’s Progress'.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Herbert George
- Virginia Woolf
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Seven
- Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Howards End