Quiz Archive – ‘Better late than never’ Christmas Quiz

What would the Austens have eaten for lunch on Christmas Day?

What are Snapdragons, Bullet Pudding and Commerce?

Which couple from ‘Northanger Abbey’ who later became engaged, met for the first time at Christmas?

What kept the Musgrove children of ‘Persuasion’ amused during the Christmas Holidays?

In ‘Emma,’ the heroine Emma Woodhouse was kept from performing which Christmas duty by the onset of snow?

At Uppercross in ‘Persuasion’ the tressels and trays were laden with what at Christmas?

IWhich of her nieces did Jane Austen write a happy new year letter to, all in back to front writing, on 8th January 1817?

In ‘Sense and Sensibility’, who does Mrs Palmer invite to… “spend some time at Cleveland this Christmas”?

It was a common practice at Austen family Christmas gatherings for various members of the party to perform charades, written themselves, for others to guess.

Below is a charade written by Jane Austen, which appeared in an anonymous booklet of private Austen family charades. Can you guess the answer? My first is a task to a young girl of spirit. My second confines her to finish the piece How hard is her fate! But how great is her merit If by taking my all she effects her release.

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