How was Cotton Mather related to Increase Mather?
Increase Mather(1639-1723) was the father of Cotton Mather(16631728).
Both were clergymen, theologians, and prolific writers in Puritan New England.
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The male advice columnist Miss Lonelyhearts wrote for the New York Post-Dispatch in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1946).
How many new Barbara Pym novels have been published since her death in 1980?
Four new Barbara Pym novels have been published since her death in 1980: 1. A Few Green Leaves (1980) 2. An Unsuitable Attachment (1982) 3. Crampton Hodnet (1985) 4. An Acadeniic Question (1986) – A memoir, A Very Private Eye, was published in 1984.
Was there a real Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe based The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719-20) on the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), a Scottish sailor who survived for more than four years on the desert island of Juan Fernandez off the Chilean coast. He became a celebrity after his rescue and homecoming in 1709.
What playwright wrote a play called Paradise Lost that was not based on Milton’s poem?
Clifford Odets wrote a play called Paradise Lost that was not based on Milton’s poem, in 1935. The play was about the fall of a middle-class family.
Who said, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it”?
It was not Mark Twain who said the phrase. The quote first appeared in an editorial in the Hartford Courant of August 24, 1897, probably written by associate editor Charles Dudley Warner. Warner had collaborated with Twain on The Gilded Age (1873).
What was the first American novel?
In 1789, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown was published. This first American novel, written by the son of a Boston clockmaker, concerned seduction, incest, rape, and suicide.