I Am Elinor Dashwood (Apparently)
I found this quiz on Jennyta's blog - thanks, Jennyta - and, always having been a bit of a Jane Austen fan, I had to do the quiz and this is the result:
I am quite happy to be sensible Elinor Dashwood and am just glad I'm not the rather dull Fanny Price or Anne Elliot. Sadly I guessed I was never going to be the exuberant Elizabeth Bennett.
Jane Austen is often classed as a romantic novelist but, though it's true her novels are about young women in love, they are written with tremendous wit, insight and humour, and that's what I like.
Most writers who are classed as romantic novelists produce yards of badly-written Mush, and I hate Mush. Jane Austen is in a class of her own.
I am quite happy to be sensible Elinor Dashwood and am just glad I'm not the rather dull Fanny Price or Anne Elliot. Sadly I guessed I was never going to be the exuberant Elizabeth Bennett.
Jane Austen is often classed as a romantic novelist but, though it's true her novels are about young women in love, they are written with tremendous wit, insight and humour, and that's what I like.
Most writers who are classed as romantic novelists produce yards of badly-written Mush, and I hate Mush. Jane Austen is in a class of her own.
posted by Daphne at 10:41 pm
5 Comments:
I know it was for women only but I did it anyway and I'm a Fanny Price.
I suspect my friends knew this already !
OH no. Anyone with the chutzpah to claim publicly to be a Fanny Price clearly isn't. You're more of a Catherine Morland - far more fun. Though she didn't have the beard. Or the suntan. And I think those high-waisted muslin frocks probably looked better on her.
I'm Marianne Dashwood. I play the piano beautifully - funny that, considering I couldn't before I did the test.
Can't imagine how Kate Winslet is going to react to playing the part of an Orkney pig farmer.
I agree with your comments on Jane Austen, Daphne. She has always been one of my favourite authors.
I'm Elinor Dashwood too - although I might have faked it a bit, because she's probably my favourite.
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