Who was the “Glad Girl”?
The “Glad Girl” was Pollyanna, in the eponymous 1913 novel by Eleanor Hodgman Porter.
She also appeared in the 1915 sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up.
The “Glad Girl” was Pollyanna, in the eponymous 1913 novel by Eleanor Hodgman Porter.
She also appeared in the 1915 sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up.
Edgar Allan Poe Roderick Usher, in “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).
Colette, the French author of the novel Cheri (1920) was named Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette.
Pamela’s last name in Samuel Richard-son’s Pamela was Andrews.
From Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books (1704). Matthew Arnold used the phrase “sweetness and light” in Culture and Anarchy (1869) to elaborate his idea of culture as a humanizing and ennobling force.
In a letter written in December 1817 to his brothers George and Thomas, poet John Keats first referred to “negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Keats considered this quality essential to a “Man of Achievement especially in literature.”
Dr. Samuel Johnson said it of his dictionary in “Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language” (1747-55).