How did you do? Answers to our Young Romantics quiz

Here are the answers to the quiz posted last week. The winner will receive a signed first edition of Lynn Shepherd’s new novel, A Treacherous Likeness, which was inspired by the Shelleys. You can read Andrew Taylor’s Spectator review of A Treacherous Likeness here, or subscribe to do so here.

1 Who as a child
a) Sent a cat up in a kite in the midst of a storm – Shelley
b) Lost his father at the age of eight when he died falling from his horse – Keats
c) Was bullied by his eight older brothers – Coleridge
d) Played in the very first Eton versus Harrow cricket match at Lord’s – Byron

2 Who
a) Left a Cambridge college to enlist in the army under the name ‘Silas Comberbache’ – Coleridge
b) Wrote part of his first major work in an Oxford college – Keats, he wrote part of Endymion while staying in Magdalen Hall
c) Kept a bear in a Cambridge college – Byron
d) Has a memorial in an Oxford college – Shelley, in University College

3 Who had
a) A wife who was the daughter of a tavern-owner – Shelley, his first wife, Harriet Westbrook
b) A wife whose father went bankrupt – Red herring
c) A wife who was the daughter of a colliery owner – Byron, Annabella Milbanke, daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke of Seaham.