1. In the selection to Wordsworth's preface to the Lyrical Ballads, why does Wordsworth think poetry is important in the contemporary world?
2. What are some connections that can be made between Austen's tirade against, presumably female novelists and readers, at the end of chapter five of Northanger Abbey and some themes were have discussed in A Room of One's Own? [Citation is essential as always.]
3. Austen writes, "Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body." What does this have to do with our discussions of A Room of One's Own?
4. What is Austen's gripe about The Spectator papers and what does it have to do with writing novels?
5. According to West speculation, what is one likely reason the original publisher of Northanger Abbey decided to sell back the manuscript to Jane's brother Henry?
6. In the Rebecca West article, the author defends the work of Austen from what charge? What is her defense? In what does the "feminism of Austen" consist? What are Austen's works about, according to West?
7. As hinted by West, what is the relation of the work of Austen to the tradition of novel writing, in particular, sentimental novels?
8. What does Woolf particularly admire about Austen's juvenile work Love and Freindship?
9. From all that we have read, what can be infer about the character of Jane Austen?
10. Based on Austen's juvenile work on history, what seems to be her general attitude towards the writing of history. How is the related to what we have been discussion in Woolf? [Footnotes are there for use.]