Ten for Jane

Here are the answers to the normblog Boxing Day quiz:

1. The odd one out is William. James, George, Henry, Francis and Charles were five of Jane Austen's six brothers. Albert was the other one. William is Fanny Price's brother in Mansfield Park.

2. Elinor is missing. Those listed are the heroines of the six novels, except for her.

3. The different one is Julia. She's Fanny Price's cousin. The others are all siblings of the heroines: Lydia, Kitty and Mary are sisters of the Miss Bennets; Margaret is the younger sister of the Miss Dashwoods; William is the brother and Susan the sister of Fanny Price; James is Catherine Morland's brother; Isabella is the sister of Emma Woodhouse; and Elizabeth and Mary are Anne Elliot's sisters.

4. The list is of biographers of Jane Austen; and another - 'with a nominal connection to the titular home in Fanny Price's story [Mansfield Park]' - is Park Honan.

5. Lady Susan is the easiest of the three named works to get to the end of because The Watsons and Sanditon were both left unfinished.

6. The date completing the series - made up of the years of birth and death for Jane and Cassandra Austen - is 1845.

7. Highbury is the place that's different, its connection with Jane Austen being that it's the fictional setting for Emma, whereas Steventon, Winchester, Chawton, Bath and Godmersham are real places that Austen spent some time in.

8. The odd one out is Henry Dashwood, father of Elinor and Marianne; he dies at the beginning of Sense and Sensibility. The other five fathers of the heroines are all living throughout their respective books.

9. Mark Twain - who thought that the omission of Jane Austen's books would 'make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it'.

10. Out of place is Miss Bates. The rest of those on the list are either villains or very unpleasant or both.

Though some other entries came close to being completely correct, there is only one that is 10 out of 10. So no pulling of winners out of a hat. The unique winner is... Anne Stott. Congratulations and a fabulous prize to her.