Friday, October 8, 2010

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Sense and Sensibility

  • Marianne Dashwood
  • Elinor Dashwood
  • Lucy Steel
  • John Willoughby
  • Colonel Brandon

Pride and Prejudice

  • Elizabeth Bennet
  • Jane Bennet
  • Fitzwilliam Darcy
  • Charles Bingley
  • George Wickham
It begins: 

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
    'My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, 'have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?' "



Mansfield Park

  • the Bertrams of Mansfield Park
  • Fanny Price
  • Mrs. Norris

Emma

  • Emma Woodhouse
  • Mr. Knightley
  • Miss Bates
  • Frank Churchill
  • Harriet Smith
  • Jane Fairfax
It begins:

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."


Persuasion

  • Sir Walter
  • Elizabeth Elliot
  • Anne Elliot
  • Frederick Wentworth

Northanger Abbey


Parody of the Gothic novel - Catherine Morland is a fan of Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho.

  • Catherine Morland
  • the Allens 
  • Henry Tilney
  • John Thorpe

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