What was George Sand’s real name?
The French author of Consuelo (1842), George Sand was born Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin.
Similar Posts
What was Pamela’s last name in Samuel Richard-son’s Pamela (1740)?
Pamela’s last name in Samuel Richard-son’s Pamela was Andrews.
What did Henry James call “the Distinguished Thing”?
Henry James called Death “the Distinguished Thing”. James used the phrase when he said “so it has come at last, the Distinguished Thing” after suffering a stroke on December 2, 1915, two months before his death in 1916.
What was the name of Socrates’ wife?
Famed for her shrewishness, the wife of the fifth-century B.C. Athenian philosopher Socrates was named Xantippe.
When was the first copyright act passed?
The first national copyright act was passed in England in 1709.
Who or what was “Udolpho” in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)?
“Udolpho” in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho was the castle of the evil Montoni in the Italian Apennines, and site of many scary events.
In Don Marquis’s “archy and mehitabel” stories, which is the cockroach and which the cat?
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).