Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction

Cover......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction and Acknowledgements......Page 11
Why is Moll's younger brother older than she is? – Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)......Page 19
Who has Susan been talking to? – Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749)......Page 27
Who betrays Elizabeth Bennet? – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)......Page 35
What do we know about Frances Price (the first)? – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)......Page 41
Apple blossom in June—again – Jane Austen, Emma (1816)......Page 46
How old is Frank? – Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817)......Page 52
Why is the monster yellow? – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)......Page 57
Does Dickens lynch Fagin? – Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837–8)......Page 62
How do the Cratchits cook Scrooge's turkey? – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)......Page 67
How many siblings has Dobbin? – W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–8)......Page 73
Heathcliff's toothbrush – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)......Page 85
Does Carker have false teeth? – Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846–8)......Page 96
Lucy Snowe, cement-mixer – Charlotte Bronte, Villette (1853)......Page 105
Is Betsey Trotwood a spinster? – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1849–50)......Page 108
How does Ruth end up in Wales? – Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth (1853)......Page 120
What is Henry Esmond's 'great scheme'? – W. M. Thackeray, Henry Esmond (1852)......Page 126
What kills Lady Dedlock? – Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852–3)......Page 133
What are Mr Hale's 'doubts'? – Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854–5)......Page 146
Name Games......Page 157
Where does Sydney Carton get his chloroform? – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)......Page 167
Why doesn't Laura tell her own story? – Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859–60)......Page 179
Why was Pip not invited to Joe's wedding? – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860–1)......Page 186
Should we change the end of the The Mill on the Floss? – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)......Page 193
How long is Alice in Wonderland for? – Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)......Page 200
Does Dickens know his train signals? – Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1864–5)......Page 203
Is Franklin Blake a thief and a rapist? – Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868)......Page 209
Elms, limes, or does it matter? – George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–2)......Page 215
How criminal is Melmotte and when is he criminalized? – Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1875)......Page 220
Jules Verne and the English Sunday – Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)......Page 229
What happens to Jim's family? – Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (1884)......Page 233
What English novel is Anna reading? – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)......Page 237
Why are there no public conveniences in Casterbridge? – Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)......Page 242
Cabinets and detectives – A. Conan Doyle, 'A Scandal in Bohemia' (1892)......Page 250
Why isn't everyone a vampire? – Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)......Page 256
Moll Flanders......Page 263
Mansfield Park......Page 264
Rob Roy......Page 266
Wuthering Heights......Page 267
David Copperfield......Page 268
Ruth......Page 269
North and South......Page 270
A Tale of Two Cities......Page 271
Our Mutual Friend......Page 272
The Mayor of Casterbridge......Page 273
Dracula......Page 274