What was Colette’s real name?
Colette, the French author of the novel Cheri (1920) was named Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette.
Colette, the French author of the novel Cheri (1920) was named Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette.
Stradlater was the rich and conceited roommate of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
A scrivener is a copier of legal documents.
The male advice columnist Miss Lonelyhearts wrote for the New York Post-Dispatch in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1946).
Charles Perrault’s 1697 French version of the tale has Cinderella wearing glass (verre) slippers, but his sources gave her fur (vair) slippers. Perrault’s alteration may have been accidental.
Thomas Chatterton was the author of several pseudo fifteenth-century poems supposedly written by monk Thomas Rowley. He committed suicide in his London garret by taking arsenic at age seventeen, driven to despair by poverty. He became a hero of native English verse to Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Chatterton was the author…
In The Iliad (ninth century B.C.), Venus is Aeneas’s mother?