Which Austen heroine are you?

This quiz has developed a personality of its own, and that personality is Mary Crawford. (And just like Mary Crawford, I am fonder of Fanny Price than I let on.)

Having said that, I wouldn’t advise this quiz if you’re averse to Fanny slander. I have one joke, and I keep making it. And if you’re after (slightly) more nuanced opinions about Austen and her heroines, I wrote about her six books and ranked her main couples here.

The results at the end are perhaps more about me than I initially intended to reveal, but there we have it. Let me know in the comments what you get and take it up with Jane if you’re offended by the result.

1. What is your favourite book?
   a) Cold Comfort Farm
   b) Emma
   c) Flowers in the Attic
   d) Wuthering Heights
   e) The Remains of the Day
   f) Mary Oliver’s poems
   g) Rebecca
   

2. What’s your weakness?
   a) Tragic, definitely true, backstories
   b) Main character syndrome
   c) My cousin is very attractive
   d) I would literally die for love
   e) Easily influenced by my friends
   f) Doing the right thing even at the expense of my own personal happiness
   g) Overly active imagination
   

3. How do you feel about clergymen?
   a) Just keep them away from my friends
   b) No thank you
   c) Yes please
   d) Dull, generally
   e) Great for removing rival love interests
   f) Very honourable
   g) Not a deal breaker, so as long as they read other books aside from the Bible and are happy to spend most of the season away from their parish.
   

4. What do you find sexiest in a partner?
   a) Being a great older brother (also a large house)
   b) A big age gap
   c) Blood ties
   d) Grand gestures
   e) Constancy and able seamanship
   f) Someone who commits to the bit
   g) Access to gothic architecture
   

5. What’s your preferred aesthetic?
   a) Indie
   b) Coquette
   c) Normcore
   d) Cottagecore
   e) Light Academia
   f) Nineties
   g) Dark Academia
   

6. How do you feel about your family?
   a) It has its ups and downs, potentially more of the latter than the former.
   b) They’re lucky to have me.
   c) Pretty complicated to be honest, but one of them makes it all okay.
   d) I love them but they don’t understand my soul.
   e) I’ve learned not to pay them too much attention.
   f) Elder daughter syndrome should be a diagnosable psychological condition.
   g) I have a fairly normal, caring family thankfully.
   

7. Who is your favourite artist?
   a) Haim
   b) Olivia Rodrigo
   c) The White Stripes
   d) Taylor Swift
   e) Lana Del Rey
   f) Joni Mitchell
   g) Kate Bush
   

8. What is your ideal first date?
   a) Dinner to check that we’re a good fit in conversation and intellect.
   b) A double date with my best friend and this guy I think is perfect for her.
   c) Anywhere except the theatre.
   d) A walk and picnic somewhere pretty.
   e) Buying books together (by the sea).
   f) Helping your ex move house.
   g) Visiting a National Trust/English Heritage property.
   

9. What's your drink of choice?
   a) Negroni
   b) Champagne
   c) Water
   d) Piña Colada
   e) Pinot Noir
   f) Earl grey tea
   g) Dark & Stormy

10. Choose a cheesy inspirational quote.
    a) Pride comes before a fall.
    b) You miss 100% of shots you don’t take.
    c) Family first.
    d) Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
    e) Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today.
    f) Sisters before misters.
    g) It’s not the number of breaths we take, but the numbers of moments that take our breath away.

11. Which reality TV show would you go on?
    a) Race Across the World
    b) Strictly Come Dancing
    c) Cash In the Attic
    d) Love Island
    e) Masterchef
    f) The Great British Bake-Off
    g) The Traitors (faithful)

12. How would your friends describe you?
    a) Witty but judgy
    b) Glamorous but meddlesome
    c) Reliable but dull
    d) Fun but scatty
    e) Kind but sad
    f) Wise but cautious
    g) Open-hearted but gullible

13. What would you go to a fancy dress party dressed as?
    a) Something that’s a clever reference or pun.
    b) Marie Antoinette
    c) I don’t like fancy dress
    d) A Disney princess
    e) Virginia Woolf
    f) I was too busy helping my friend get their costume sorted to finish mine so just some kind of hat or animal ears.
    g) A bride of Dracula

14. Which is your favourite 90s/early 2000s film?
    a) 10 Things I Hate About You
    b) Bring It On
    c) Never Been Kissed
    d) The Notebook
    e) Get Over It
    f) Empire Records
    g) Cruel Intentions

15. Which secondary Pride & Prejudice character do you enjoy the most?
    a) Jane Bennet
    b) Lydia Bennet
    c) Mary Bennet
    d) Georgiana Darcy
    e) Colonel Fitzwilliam
    f) Charlotte Lucas
    g) Mr Wickham

Mostly A: Lizzy Bennet
Well, well, well. Look at you. Lizzy Bennet. I bet you feel really good about yourself don’t you. And rightly so - Lizzy is arguably one of the best fictional characters ever created. My mum is the eldest of four sisters who often argue about which of them is most like Lizzy because they all know she’s great (I obviously back my mum). You are probably funny but sometimes take it a little bit too far and hurt someone’s feelings, but you’d go to bat hard for your inner circle.

Mostly B: Emma Woodhouse
I come out of this quiz as an Emma, but with Elinor not far behind. Those two are pretty different but probably do quite accurately sum up my different facets so I guess this quiz is science? Emma isn’t my favourite book, but I do really enjoy Emma as a character, and think she’s probably the one who would get on best in modern life. You are probably a delight, I guess, given this is what I got.

Mostly C: Fanny Price
While Fanny does have many admirable qualities, if you got to her via this quiz in particular then I’m a little concerned. You really shouldn’t have picked up any more than the stray C answer.

Mostly D: Marianne Dashwood
Ah Marianne, perennial little sister and hopeless romantic. Very ill-suited for modern life, I fear she would have a very bad time on the dating apps and have her heart broken a lot. You are probably very charming and likeable but I bet you send your friends really long WhatsApps about your feelings.

Mostly E: Anne Elliot
Anne is the Austen heroine I think I’d most like to be friends with and yet I only answered one E. Why am I so offended by the results of my own quiz? If you got Anne then let me know cause I think I’d like you, although lowkey she was one of the hardest one to write answers for. You are probably smart and calm and kind but potentially nursing some deep and private inner sadness which hardly anyone knows about.

Mostly F: Elinor Dashwood
If you don’t know me in real life, I am very obviously a big sister/eldest daughter (maybe this is obvious even if you don’t know me in real life) and I thought I would get Elinor over Emma (Seriously, I don’t know why I keep being so surprised by a quiz I wrote). You are probably caring and empathetic but worry too much about everyone being okay all the time.

Mostly G: Catherine Morland
Sweet Catherine, I love her so much (and I love Henry Tilney even more). Such a delight of a character, although I imagine a little infuriating to spend a great deal of time with. Another real little sister energy heroine. You are probably sweet and trusting and excitable but can get extremely carried away and end up in absurd situations.

I hope you were not offended by your results, let me know who you got, and if you would like further Austen content, because it’s my favourite thing to write. In my ongoing attempts to wrangle with Mansfield Park I might watch the 1999 and 2007 films next and write about them.