Novelist Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua, in the West Indies, in 1949.
Her given name is Elaine Potter Richardson.
St. John’s, Antigua, in the West Indies, in 1949. Her given name is Elaine Potter Richardson.
Colette, the French author of the novel Cheri (1920) was named Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette.
The full name of Antonia in Willa Cather’s novel My Antoniais is Antonia Shimerda, eldest daughter of a Bohemian family in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
The end of The Lady or the Tiger is not revealed. It is not revealed.
One of the earliest and most influential American magazine editors, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in 1830. In addition to founding the first national women’s magazine, Godey’s Ladies’Magazine, and successfully campaigning to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, she was inspired to write the rhyme by an actual case of a child’s…
The golliwog, a type of doll known as “the blackest gnome,” was invented by Florence K. Upton in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a “Golliwog” (1895). More golliwog tales followed until 1909.
There were two sets of twins: Bert and Nan and their younger siblings, Freddie and Flossie. The series about them began with The Bobbsey Twins (1904) by Laura Lee Hope.