LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Outbreaks of plague and other epidemics that affect small children
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Excessive distances to travel between home and work
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Suitors from the upper classes seeking their hand in marriage or attempting to arrange marriages for them
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Long hours, little pay, enormous responsibilities with almost no actual power, problematic relations with employer and under-staff
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Detailed explanation-1: -She fell into ill health and melancholia and in the summer of 1838 terminated her engagement. In 1839 Charlotte declined a proposal from the Reverend Henry Nussey, her friend’s brother, and some months later one from another young clergyman.
Detailed explanation-2: -Years later Charlotte Brontë, discussing Agnes Grey with Elizabeth Gaskell, told her: “none but those who had been in the position of a governess could ever realize the dark side of ‘respectable’ human nature…
Detailed explanation-3: -She was rarely invited to sit down to dinner with her employers, even if they were kind. The servants disliked the governess because they were expected to be deferential towards her, despite the fact that she had to go out to work, just like them.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most famous for her passionate novel Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë also published poems and three other novels. She was the third of six children of Patrick Brontë, an Irish crofter’s son who rose via a Cambridge education to become, in 1820, a perpetual curate at Haworth, in Yorkshire.