In a famous 1813 novel, what was the surname of sisters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia?
"Elizabeth, Jane and Lydia Bennet respectively find that their only hope of social-economic success comes with marrying the right men. Unlike ""Pride and Prejudice"", two of the Ho sisters' relationships end unhappily and only Ho Malhi, the sister who resembles Elizabeth Bennet, ends up well with her choice of a man. Hŏ Sŏng, the once successful small businessman who was now struggling as the ""chaebol"" came to dominate the South Korean economy in the 1970s, resembled Mr. Bennet as he watches his daughters' ""quest"" to find the ideal husband, through unlike him, Hŏ ends up committing suicide on the day"
"Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen. It charts the emotional development of protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the British Regency period. Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the first to know success, while Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" and other works were"
"at 9 p. m. with ""Don't stay up late, Girls""!, then rewinding the clock and taking the stairs to his room upstairs. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"", appeared in 1847 after many tribulations, again for reasons of finding a publisher. The packets containing the manuscripts often returned to the parsonage and Charlotte simply added a new address and did this at least a dozen times during the year. The first one was finally published by Smith, Elder & Co in London, of which the 23-year-old owner George Smith had been specialised until then in publishing"
"from her mother). Mary also has little understanding and sympathy for her sisters, Lydia most of all. Like each of her sisters, Mary had an allowance/pin money of £50 per annum (Interest on the £1,000 inheritance from her mother's dowry, by settlement upon her death) before her marriage (see below). Mary does not appear often in the novel. However, it is said in volume 3, chapter 19 (the epilogue) that, now with Jane, Elizabeth, and Lydia (and Kitty(?)) now married and moved out of Longbourn, Mary received more 'attention' from her mother, and was made to mix more with people"
"and Elizabeth, have tried over the years (prior to the events of the book, ""Pride and Prejudice"") to reign in the wild-&-ill behaviours of Kitty and Lydia, their efforts had, on Kitty's end, been seen as 'interfering' (""""Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia's guidance, had been always affronted by their advice""""); Jane and Elizabeth's attempts had also undermined by their mother (who sees nothing wrong with it (especially with Lydia)), and unsupported by their father (who is amused by Kitty and Lydia's 'silliness' and simply will not trouble himself with the effort involved in reigning them in (and with"
"Maria and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Charlotte maintained that the school's poor conditions permanently affected her health and physical development, and hastened the deaths of Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who both died of tuberculosis in June 1825. After the deaths of his older daughters, Patrick removed Charlotte and Emily from the school. Charlotte used the school as the basis for Lowood School in ""Jane Eyre"". At home in Haworth Parsonage, Brontë acted as ""the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters"". Brontë wrote her first known poem at the"
"Patrick Brontë. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1820, shortly after the birth of Emily's younger sister Anne, the family moved eight miles away to Haworth, where Patrick was employed as perpetual curate; here the children developed their literary talents. After the death of their mother on 15 September 1821 from cancer, Emily's three elder sisters, Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte, were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge, where they encountered abuse and privations which Charlotte would later draw upon in her novel ""Jane Eyre"". At the age of"
"never exhibited any sign of foresight, and so cannot think beyond her own needs and desires; Lydia also shows no regard for the moral code of her society, and no remorse for the shame and disgrace she causes her family, merely thinking of it as a ""good joke"", and how envious her sisters and friends would be of her (she assumes they will, anyway) that she was the first of them to be married; this she seems to view as something of a real accomplishment, especially as she's the youngest of all of them. Jane Austen, the author of the"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"Wilhelm Richard Wagner born 22 May. In 1814, Sir Walter Scott published ""Waverley"". Jane Austen's ""Mansfield Park"" was published anonymously. Robert Southey published ""Roderick, the Last of the Goths"". An English translation of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" appeared. On July 28 Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin (Mary Shelley) eloped. Mikhail Lermontov was born. In 1815, Jane Austen anonymously published ""Emma"". In 1816, Thomas Love Peacock published ""Headlong Hall"". Coleridge published ""Christabel"" and ""Kubla Khan"". E. T. A. Hoffmann published ""Undine"". Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley went to Geneva and met Byron (with his physician John Polidori). At Byron's villa they told"
"friends like Jannette Day and her daughter Jackie. When Elizabeth visited her brother John's family in Norwich, England, she decided to take his daughter Mary Murray (nicknamed Polly) under her wing, teaching her all that she herself had learned as a shopkeeper in Boston. She immediately set upon sending Polly to Boston to make connections in the commercial world and boarding with her merchant friends, the Cumings sisters. They would teach her all she needed to know about shopkeeping and running a business for herself. Additionally, Elizabeth sent her young nephew Jack to voyage with his sister across the Atlantic"
"for she, too, may have fallen in love with Shelley. The three sailed to Europe, and made their way across France to Switzerland on foot, reading aloud from the works of Rousseau, Shakespeare, and Mary's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (an account of their travels was subsequently published by the Shelleys). After six weeks, homesick and destitute, the three young people returned to England. The enraged William Godwin refused to see them, though he still demanded money, to be given to him under another name, to avoid scandal. In late 1815, while living in a cottage in Bishopsgate, Surrey, with Mary and"
"Cotillion (novel) Cotillion is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer that was released in 1953. It is one of the most light-hearted of Heyer's romances, avoiding the mystery, intrigue, and sensational events present in many of her novels. The story is set in 1816. Heroine Kitty Charing has been brought up in rural isolation by her rich and eccentric guardian, Matthew Penicuik (pronounced PENNY-cook), whom she calls Uncle Matthew. Uncle Matthew makes the whimsical decision to name Kitty as his heiress, but only if she marries one of his extensive collection of great-nephews, the offspring of his assorted and"
"Lady Catherine de Bourgh Lady Catherine de Bourgh (née Fitzwilliam) is a character in the 1813 novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" by Jane Austen. According to Janet Todd, Lady Catherine de Bourgh can be seen as a foil to the novel's protagonist Elizabeth Bennet as Elizabeth is seen as wild while Lady Catherine is seen as strict to the rules of society and Elizabeth seems to contradict in her actions many of the ideals that Lady Catherine presents. Lady Catherine is the widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh. The two had a single daughter, Anne de Bourgh. Lady Catherine was the"
"Cousin Kate Cousin Kate is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1817 and 1818. Kate Malvern is a beautiful orphan who is forced to become a governess when her father dies. However, due to her youth and beauty she loses the job and has to go to her old nurses' house whilst looking for a new position. Despite the fact that she is a lady she thinks of becoming a lady's dresser or opening her own shop and Sarah Nidd, her nurse, decides to take action. She writes to Lady Minerva Broome, Kate's half-aunt,"
"version of the book was released in February 2008, with Scarlett Johansson as Mary and Natalie Portman as Anne and Eric Bana as King Henry VIII. In ""Wolf Hall"", Boleyn is portrayed by Charity Wakefield. Mary is also a subject in three non-fiction books: Mary Boleyn Mary Boleyn, also known as Lady Mary (c. 1499/1500 – 19 July 1543), was the sister of English queen Anne Boleyn, whose family enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII. Mary was one of the mistresses of Henry VIII for an unknown period of time. It has been rumoured that she"
"muted reception from critics. The four central characters are studies in contrast: the two friends Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keeldar, and their loves, the brothers Robert and Louis Gérard Moore. Other characters in the novel include: Shirley (novel) Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"" (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of"
"married name remains unknown) who lived near Pemberley (""""Catherine ""Kitty"" Bennet was satisfactorily married to a clergyman near Pemberley""""), potentially the Lambton parish, the Kympton parish, or another such parish under the patronage of the Darcy family. Lydia Wickham (""née Bennet"") is the youngest Bennet sister; she is 15 years old when the novel begins (turning 16 in June, after going to Brighton as Mrs. Forster's ""particular friend"" (but before she ran off with George Wickham)). In terms of outer appearance, Lydia is described as a strong, healthy, well-grown female, with a fine complexion and a good-humoured countenance (she also"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"times, he eventually rewards her virtue by sincerely proposing an equitable marriage to her. The book was one of the first bestsellers, with five editions printed in the first eleven months of release. Jane Austen is an important influence on romance genre fiction, and ""Pride and Prejudice"", published in 1813, has been called ""the best romance novel ever written."" In the early part of the Victorian era, the Brontë sisters, like Austen, wrote literary fiction that influenced later popular fiction. Charlotte Brontë in ""Jane Eyre"", published in 1847, introduced the orphaned heroine. Brontë's love romance incorporates elements of both the"
"Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer. Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley and the novelist Robert Bage. A keen letter-writer, she corresponded with, among others, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and her mathematician cousin Charles Hutton. She built up a collection of over two thousand letters, some of which were published after her death. Hutton published a number of novels including ""The Miser Married: a Novel"" (1813) - itself partly written as a series"
"meet Julianne, the daughter of a doctor, for the first time. All three are successful in applying to the University of London, where Carmel shares a dorm room with Julianne, who later changes her name to Julia, and Karina stays with Lynette, a wealthy only child. Karina and Carmel grow further apart. Carmel's university existence is marked by extreme poverty and hunger while Karina somehow manages to subsist with even less resources. Author Margaret Atwood championed the book in a review in The New York Times when it was first published in the U.S., stating that the ""pleasures of the"
"as both a maid and a laundress. Several aunts and cousins lived in the house as well. Aunt Mahala was given the nickname ""Duke"" after proving herself the undisputed ""boss"" of the family. The extended family (the Clarks) consisted of her mother's siblings: Isabell, Mahala, Boston, Porterfield, Hannah, Alice, Rhoda, Bessie, their children, grandchildren, and patriarch Rev. Paul Clark, a former slave. Jackson's father, John A. Jackson Sr., was a stevedore (dockworker) and a barber who later became a Baptist minister. He fathered five other children besides Mahalia: Wilmon (older) and then Yvonne, Edna, Pearl and Johnny Jr. (by his"
"Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused Dickens to miss the publication dates for two novels: ""The Pickwick Papers"" and ""Oliver Twist"". Hogarth later became the inspiration for a number of characters in Dickens novels, including Rose Maylie in ""Oliver Twist"" and Little Nell in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". Charles and Catherine"
"of the Borough of Oldham). She was the daughter (among 12 children) of Nelson Horatio Kenney (1849-1912) and Anne Wood (1852-1905); the family was poor and working class. Her sisters were Caroline (""Kitty"", Ann (Annie) and Jane (Jennie). Annie and Jessie took leading roles in the Women's Social and Political Union. Annie Kenney who was eight years older than her, promoted the study of literature amongst her colleagues – inspired by Robert Blatchford's publication, ""The Clarion"". Jessie Kenney became actively involved in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) after she and her sister, Annie, heard Teresa Billington-Greig and Christabel"
"from Hartshead to Thornton. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote in her biography of Charlotte Brontë that a certain ""Miss Temple"" (probably the inspiration for the character in ""Jane Eyre"") offered a glimpse of Elizabeth's behaviour in this letter: Gaskell also wrote, adding that this had become quite of a habit: In 1821, when Elizabeth was six years old, her mother, weakened by the birth of her sixth child, died of cancer. Maria, her older sister, became the ""guardian"" of the children, maturing at a very young age. Patrick described his second daughter as a young girl with ""sound common sense"". On 1"
"""The Watsons"" and the corresponding text of ""The Younger Sister"" reveals a very great resemblance, despite some name changes, but the elegant and alert style of Jane Austen is replaced by a text that takes on more the character of notes than a faithful copy of the original. ""The Younger Sister: a novel"" (1850) ""The Wife's Sister"", also known as, ""The Forbidden Marriage"" (1851) ""May and December: a tale of wedded life"" (1854) ""Agnes Milbourne"", also known as, ""Foy pour devoir"" (1856) ""The Old Vicarage: a novel"" (1856) ""Mistakes of a Life (1863)"" ""Love and Duty"" ""The Rival Suitors (1857)"""
"""per se"""". Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a"
"of the most popular novelist of the era was Sir Walter Scott, whose historical romances inspired a generation of painters, composers, and writers throughout Europe. Scott's novel-writing career was launched in 1814 with ""Waverley"", often called the first historical novel. Jane Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, in novels such as ""Pride and Prejudice"" (1813), ""Emma"" (1815), though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. The European Romantic movement reached America"
"for it. There is evidence that Austen further revised the novel in 1816-1817 with the intention of having it published. Austen rewrote sections, renaming the main character Catherine and using that as her working title. After her death, Austen's brother Henry gave the novel its final name and arranged for publication of ""Northanger Abbey"" in late December 1817 (1818 given on the title page), as the first two volumes of a four-volume set, with a preface for the first time publicly identifying Jane Austen as the author of all her novels. Neither ""Northanger Abbey"" nor ""Persuasion"" was published under the"
"King's daughter, at the time declared illegitimate but later to become queen) and Katherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, and queen at the time. Jane was thus the niece of Henry VIII's third wife, Queen Jane, whom she was probably named after. She was the sole witness to the secret marriage of her brother Edward to Lady Catherine Grey (a potential heir to Queen Elizabeth I) in 1560. She died a year later, aged 20, probably of tuberculosis. The Seymour sisters tended to work together, with their most famous work being a collection of 103 Latin distichs, ""Hecatodistichon"","