Where did Virginia Woolf drown herself?
Virginia Woolf drowned herself at the River Ouse near her home at Rodmell, Sussex, in 1941, following a bout with mental illness.
Virginia Woolf drowned herself at the River Ouse near her home at Rodmell, Sussex, in 1941, following a bout with mental illness.
The author of Gone With the Wind (1936) Margaret Mitchell died in 1949 at age forty-eight after being hit by a taxi in Atlanta. The author of Gone With the Wind (1936) died in 1949 at age forty-eight after being hit by a taxi in Atlanta.
Krook, the junk merchant, spontaneously combusts in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. Krook, the junk merchant.
T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” (1925) says the world ends “Not with a bang but a whimper”.
Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859; Jacob, 1785-1863) was the younger brother. Their book Children’s and Household Tales, now known as Grimm’s Fairy-Tales, first appeared in 1812.
Hans Christian Andersen’s first novel The Improvisatore was published in 1835. Later the same year, Andersen published Tales Told for Children, which included well-known tales as well as an original story, “Little Ida’s Flowers.”
The title of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars refers to the banner of the Irish Citizens Army, of which O’Casey was once a member. The play concerns members of the army before and during the Easter Rising in 1916.