Authors and Writers

Question 1

Jane Austeen

Answer 1

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility

Question 2

Charles Dickens

Answer 2

Oliver Twist, Great Expectations

Question 3

Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer 3

Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Hyde

Question 4

Thomas Hardy

Answer 4

Author and poet - Farm from the madding crowd and Jude the obscure

Question 5

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 5

Scottish Dr, Sherlock Holmes, first fictional detective

Question 6

Evelyn Waugh

Answer 6

satirical novels - Decline and Fall and Scoop. Bideshead Revesited

Question 7

Sir Kingsley Amis

Answer 7

English Novelist and poet. Wrote more than 20 novels - Lucky Jim

Question 8

Graham Greene

Answer 8

novel influenced by his religious belief - The heart of the Matter, The Honorary Consul, Brighton Rock, Our Man in Havanah

Question 9

John Milton

Answer 9

Paradise Lost - poems about protestants

Question 10

Jk Rowlings

Answer 10

now writes adult books

Question 11

William Wordsworth

Answer 11

poet - inspired by nature

Question 12

Sir Waler Scott

Answer 12

Scottish poet - traditional stories

Question 13

19th Century poets

Answer 13

William Blake
John Keats
Lord Byron
Percy Shelley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Elisabeth Browning

Question 14

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon

Answer 14

WWI experience poems

Question 15

Recent poets

Answer 15

Sir Walter de la Mare
John Masefield
Sir John Betjeman
Ted Hughes

Question 16

Burial

Answer 16

Westminster Abbey - poets corner

Question 17

Rudyard Kippling

Answer 17

Just So stories - Jungle Book
Wrote poems set in India and the UK
British Empire good