Mr Knightley or Captain Wentworth? How can a girl choose?

[girlyswot]

Your result for The Jane Austen heroine Test...

Elinor Dashwood

54% romance, 33% sauciness, 64% etiquette, 72% intelligence

You're always aware of social obligations and have more than your fair share of sense. You would never say something out of anger or in poor taste. This may lead some (like, perhaps, your saucy little sister) to accuse you of being cold. Nothing could be further from the truth! It's just that you don't believe in making a scene. Respectable gentlemen everywhere swoon for you (though you'd never admit it). But you only have eyes for one. He is lucky to have you.

Ideal matches: Edward Ferrars, Mr. Knightley, Captain Wentworth

Guaranteed heartbreak: John Willoughby, John Thorpe

Not worthy of your affections: Frank Churchill, Captain Benwick

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Comments

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

I came out the same, which is surprising.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is surprising. Who would you have picked for yourself?

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I'll ask the Internet.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Oh Captain Wentworth any day... I am horrified that it told me I am Fanny Price. I always thought of her as unbelievably drippy.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I think that Fanny Price is possibly the strongest character Austen ever wrote.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to reread Mansfield Park to see if I like it any better fifteen years on...

[angiebee.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

I got Elinor, too:
64% romance, 37% sauciness, 60% etiquette, 65% intelligence

[dogstar101.livejournal.com]

Ooh, fun distraction. I got Elinor too. Can't say I'm surprised. Although there weren't many interesting professions for intellectual and not especially wealthy men in Austen's time other than the clergy, so I think the quiz is a bit skewed.

Then again, my current partner is the son of a preacher man, so it's not far off...

I probably would have got Marianne 20 years ago!

/ramble

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I got Elinor too. Obviously my voting for long walks and poetry didn't count for anything.

Definitely Wentworth! I always thought Knightley rather patronising, although I found him nore sympathetic after seeing Jeremy Northam's version.

What was the second insignificant of Austen's novels?