What was George Sand’s real name?
The French author of Consuelo (1842), George Sand was born Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin.
The French author of Consuelo (1842), George Sand was born Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin.
In the Italian poem Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1532), the knight Orlando goes crazy with rage when he learns that Angelica, the woman he loves, has married someone else. Orlando runs around naked, destroying everything in sight. By the poem’s end, he is cured.
“Stella” was Esther Johnson, a woman Swift once tutored at the household of Sir William Temple in England. Swift’s letters to Johnson and her companion Rebecca Dingley, written from 1710 to 1713, are known as Journal to Stella.
Mrs. Malaprop appeared in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals. She had a habit of misusing words in sentences like “I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.” The character gave rise to the term malapropism.
In Don Marquis’s “archy and mehitabel” stories, Archy is the cockroach, Mehitabel the cat. Archy was said to have written the stories at night on newspaper columnist Marquis’s typewriter. He wrote without capitals because he couldn’t reach the shift key. The stories were first collected in archy and mehitabel (1927).
The classical writer who was the first to record the story about the runner who ran from Marathon to Athens, and then died was Lucian of Samosata, a writer of satirical essays of the second century A.D. Where he got the story is unknown. He claimed that Philippides (also known as Pheidippides) ran about twenty-five…
The full title Of The Pickwick Papers is The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.