What Charles Dickens novel exposed the “ragged schools” and helped get them abolished?
The Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (1838-390) exposed the “ragged schools” and helped get them abolished.
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What is the rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)?
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What is Toni Morrison’s real name?
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What virtues and what knights are the subjects of each of the six books of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1596)?
Book I: Holiness/The Red Cross Knight Book II: Temperance/Guyon Book III: Chastity/Britomart Book IV: Friendship/Cambel and Triamond Book V: Justice/Artegall Book VI: Courtesy/Calidore
What was Hiawatha’s tribe?
The hero of Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha (1855) belonged to the Mohawk tribe, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois.
Why does Bluebeard kill his wives?
Bluebeard, the title character of Charles Perrault’s story “Barbebleue” (1697) kills his wives for looking into the locked room where he stores the corpses of other disobedient wives. His final wife, however, escapes Bluebeard’s punishment.