Opening Lines
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.
What is Northanger Abbey?
Catherine Morland dances at her first ball in this resort town.
What is Bath?
This type of food is the primary offering at the Goblin Market.
What is fruit?
This popular mode of publication saw a text released in regular installments across time.
What is serialization?
The only Brontë sister we did not read something by.
Who is Anne Brontë?
The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.
What is Jude the Obscure?
The majority of Thomas Hardy's novels take place in this fictionalized region.
What is Wessex?
The consumption of this food is said to "look like repentance" in Wilde's play.
What are muffins?
Charles Dickens originally published under this penname.
Who is Boz?
Famous for poetic works including "My Last Duchess" and the The Ring & the Book, he was married to one of our course authors.
Who is Robert Browning?
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
What is Wuthering Heights?
Mary Seacole performs an autopsy on a baby while living in this country.
What is Panama?
Arabella hides this in her bosom to seduce Jude.
What is an egg?
Which two characters from our course appeared in multiple published texts?
Who are Alice and Sherlock Holmes?
Noted for his contributions to Gothic lit and children's adventure stories, this Scottish author went by three names.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
It is no very good symptom either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination.
What is Signs of the Times?
This is where Tintern Abbey is located.
What is Wales/the River Wye?
Oliver Twist has the audacity to ask for more of this food.
What is gruel?
Which two of our course texts were first published posthumously?
What is Northanger Abbey and De Profundis?
Dickens's biggest competition for literary popularity and the author of Vanity Fair.
Who is William Makepeace Thackeray?
I stand on the mark beside the shore
What is "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"?
Which of our authors was employed by the real-world equivalent of Christminster?
Who is Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson?
Mary Seacole provides her recipe for this holiday delicacy.
What is Christmas pudding?
What name was listed as the author of the first American edition of Wuthering Heights?
Who is Currer Bell?
Known for her social novels including Mary Barton and North & South, she also wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë.
Who is Elizabeth Gaskell?