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Themed 15x15 Freeform Crossword - Compiled By stellam
Date: 06 Jun 2011 Title: George Austen, Jane's Father & quotes from other f
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Across
1. vapour, shadow, smoke and confusion is written by Jane about this famous city (4)
3. We have lost an excellent Father. An illness of only eight and forty hours carried him off yesterday morning between ten and eleven. His tenderness as a father, who can do justice to? (6)
5. There is something so shocking in a child being taken away from his parents and natural home (6)
10. Those who tell their own story, you know, must be listened to with caution. When you see us in contact, you will judge for yourself (8)
11. She is to be _____, and seems to me as if she would be as like Henry, as Cassy is to Neddy (5)
12. George Austen was born in Tonbridge in Kent, one of ____ children of William Austen, a surgeon, and Rebecca Hampson (4)
13. George Austen known as a handsome proctor at Balliol College, was a reflective, literary man, who took _____ in his children (5)
Down
1. The advantage or disadvantage of your family, of your parents, your brothers and sisters, never seems to have had a moment (7)
2. Her father died suddenly in 1805 and the manuscript was left unfinished (10)
4. If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. (6)
6. At the time when I have the most perfect recollection of him he must have been hard upon seventy, but his hair in its milk-whiteness might have belonged to a much older man. It was very beautiful, with short curls about the ears. (4)
7. You must be sensible that as an only son, & the representative of an ancient Family, your conduct in Life is most interesting to your connections (8)
8. No, my dear; I think not. I have great hopes of finding him (Mr. Collins) quite the reverse. There is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter, which promises well. I am impatient to see him (6)
9. He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties (8)
