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London Quiz - Jane Austen’s London (Questions)

Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died, aged 41, in 1817. Whilst many of her novels are set in the country or Bath, she passed through London often on her travels or went there to visit her brother Henry or her publishers. Her vivid letters to her sister Cassandra are full of illustrative details about her shopping expeditions and visits to the capital’s galleries and theatres.

Where did Jane Austen stay when she visited London?

[ ]	10 Henrietta Street
[ ]	12 Georgina Terrace
[ ]	14 Victoria Gardens
[ ]	16 Elizabeth Court

In which London church do Lydia and Wickham marry in ‘Pride and Prejudice’?

[ ]	St Margaret’s
[ ]	St Clement’s
[ ]	St Paul’s
[ ]	St Peter’s

In ‘Mansfield Park’ Maria Rushworth leaves her dull husband and runs off with Henry Crawford. In which street did she and her husband live prior to this event?

[ ]	Wellington Crescent
[ ]	Wigmore Street
[ ]	Wigmore Mews
[ ]	Wimpole Street

Mrs. Jennings’ house in Berkeley Street is where Elinor and Marianne stay in which novel?

[ ]	Pride and Prejudice
[ ]	Northanger Abbey
[ ]	Persuasion
[ ]	Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen, her brother Edward and three of his young daughters went to see a production of Don Juan on one occasion. At which London theatre was it showing?

[ ]	The Royal Opera House
[ ]	The Albert Hall
[ ]	The Lyceum
[ ]	The Gielgud

In ‘Northanger Abbey’ Isabella and John Thorpe’s home was located in which district of London?

[ ]	Stepney
[ ]	Chelsea
[ ]	Hackney
[ ]	Putney

In ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Charlotte has her baby whilst staying at the Palmer’s house. The house was situated on which square?

[ ]	Hanover
[ ]	Windsor
[ ]	Queens
[ ]	Leicester

Where in London might Jane Austen fans be able to see her writing desk?

[ ]	At the British Museum
[ ]	At the British Library
[ ]	At the Victoria and Albert Museum
[ ]	In Fortnum and Mason

Which London gallery holds a pencil and watercolour sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra?

[ ]	The National Portrait Gallery
[ ]	The Courtauld Gallery
[ ]	The National Gallery
[ ]	Tate Britain

10.

In the novel ‘Emma’ who ran off to London just to get a haircut?

[ ]	Frank Churchill
[ ]	George Knightly
[ ]	Harriet Smith
[ ]	Jane Fairfax

London Quiz - Jane Austen’s London (Answers)

Where did Jane Austen stay when she visited London?

[x]	10 Henrietta Street
[ ]	12 Georgina Terrace
[ ]	14 Victoria Gardens
[ ]	16 Elizabeth Court

The bank ‘Austen, Maunde and Tilson’, of which Jane’s brother was a director, occupied the site in the early 1800s. Jane used to stay with her brother there when she visited in 1813 and 1814

In which London church do Lydia and Wickham marry in ‘Pride and Prejudice’?

[ ]	St Margaret’s
[x]	St Clement’s
[ ]	St Paul’s
[ ]	St Peter’s

The couple married there as Wickham’s lodgings were in the parish

In ‘Mansfield Park’ Maria Rushworth leaves her dull husband and runs off with Henry Crawford. In which street did she and her husband live prior to this event?

[ ]	Wellington Crescent
[ ]	Wigmore Street
[ ]	Wigmore Mews
[x]	Wimpole Street

Sadly for Maria, Henry manipulated her, used her and didn’t love her back!

Mrs. Jennings’ house in Berkeley Street is where Elinor and Marianne stay in which novel?

[ ]	Pride and Prejudice
[ ]	Northanger Abbey
[ ]	Persuasion
[x]	Sense and Sensibility

Mrs. Jennings lived in a handsome house on Berkeley Street near Portman Square

Jane Austen, her brother Edward and three of his young daughters went to see a production of Don Juan on one occasion. At which London theatre was it showing?

[ ]	The Royal Opera House
[ ]	The Albert Hall
[x]	The Lyceum
[ ]	The Gielgud

It was an elaborate production with songs, mime and a spectacular recreation of hell

In ‘Northanger Abbey’ Isabella and John Thorpe’s home was located in which district of London?

[ ]	Stepney
[ ]	Chelsea
[ ]	Hackney
[x]	Putney

Incidentally, London locations ending in -ea or -ey derive from an Anglo Saxon word meaning ‘Island’

In ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Charlotte has her baby whilst staying at the Palmer’s house. The house was situated on which square?

[x]	Hanover
[ ]	Windsor
[ ]	Queens
[ ]	Leicester

Shortly after the birth, the papers announced that Charlotte Palmer “was safely delivered of a son and heir”

Where in London might Jane Austen fans be able to see her writing desk?

[ ]	At the British Museum
[x]	At the British Library
[ ]	At the Victoria and Albert Museum
[ ]	In Fortnum and Mason

Not to be confused with a conventional desk, her writing desk is about the size of a laptop

Which London gallery holds a pencil and watercolour sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra?

[x]	The National Portrait Gallery
[ ]	The Courtauld Gallery
[ ]	The National Gallery
[ ]	Tate Britain

The sketch, made around 1810, by Jane’s sister Cassandra is the only reasonably certain portrait from her life

10.

In the novel ‘Emma’ who ran off to London just to get a haircut?

[ ]	Frank Churchill
[x]	George Knightly
[ ]	Harriet Smith
[ ]	Jane Fairfax

This slightly unsettled Emma’s faith in him but was typical behaviour of a true Regency dandy