Sense and Sensibility
Elinor is the Dashwood sister who best embodies this titular character trait because of her practicality and resistance to relying on her feelings.
What is sensibility?
This is the playwright who penned Pygmalion.
Who is George Bernard Shaw.
Much of the novel is narrated by this character, who, when we meet her, is best described as the housekeeper at Thrushcross Grange.
Who is Nelly Dean?
What is finding a job in a flower shop?
This work first appeared in 1847.
What is Wuthering Heights?
After her secret engagement to Edward is revealed and causes a huge controversy, Lucy Steel ultimately runs away to marry this man.
Who is Robert Ferrars?
This was the first novel that Jane Austen published.
What is Sense and Sensibility?
Wuthering Heights was written during this literary period, which also saw Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde rise to fame.
What is the Victorian period?
While most of the action of Pygmalion takes place in Higgins's residence, the play opens outside of St. Paul's as this is happening.
What is the opera letting out?
The novel as a genre rose to prominence in Britain during this monarch's reign.
Who is Queen Victoria?
Like most of Austen's novels, Sense and Sensibility focuses on this aspect of marriage that emphasizes women's value on "the market."
What is the economic aspect of marriage?
These two authors never maried.
Who are Jane Austen and Emily Bronte?
The sinister setting, supernatural elements, and general unsettling tone of Wuthering Heights contribute to its classification as this type of novel popular in the 19th century.
What is a gothic novel?
Pygmalion inspired this musical, which was later turned into a musical film starring Audrey Hepburn.
What is My Fair Lady?
Jane Austen is known for her use of this literary technique that (often humorously) reveals the contrast between appearance and reality and/or intention and meaning.
What is irony?
Marianne is devastated when she learns that Willoughby is engaged to this women who has a large fortune.
Who is Miss Sophia Grey?
This author had political ties to the socialist and communist parties, and themes in his works reflected this.
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
These are the parents of Hareton Earnshaw.
Who are Hindley and Frances Earnshaw?
The women in Pygmalion consistently ask Higgins this question about Eliza when they find out about his project/bet concerning her.
What is "what is to become of her"?
Pygmalion is an example of this, or a genre of literature that uses humor and/or irony tocritique aspects of society.
What is satire?
This character in the novel best represents the patriarchal stranglehold that men had over the women in their families.
Who is John Dashwood?
Emily Bronte originally published Wuthering Heights under this pseudonym.
What is Ellis Bell?
These five characters are living at Wuthering Heights when Lockwood arrives as the tenant at the beginning of the novel.
Who are Heathcliff, Cathy Linton, Hareton Earnshaw, Zillah, and Joseph?
Pygmalion's themes of alienation, especially those that relate to alienation from work and others in society, reflect a shift to this movement within dramatic literature at which the play was at the forefront.
What is modernist drama?
Jane Austen is most often associated with this brief historical period that began with the deposition of King George III.
What is the Regency period?