Charlotte Bronte, the most famous of the Bronte sisters, wrote Jane Eyre in 1847.
Emily Bronte, whose work is notable for its spirit of passion and rebellion, wrote Wuthering Heights in 1848.
The seven virtues are: faith, hope, charity (or love), prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The first three are called the theological virtues, the last four the cardinal virtues.
As set forth by scholastic theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274), the seven deadly sins are: anger, covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth.
The transatlantic flier and isolationist won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis. The book was made into a movie starring James Stewart in 1957.
The name of Miss Havisham’s house in Dickens’s Great Expectations is Satis House.
Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (c. 1851) ends with: “And we are here as on a darkling plain/Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,/Where ignorant armies clash by night”.
Melville’s model of passive resistance Bartleby the Scrivener calmly replies to his boss, “I would prefer not to.” The short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” was first published anonymously in Putnam’s Magazine in 1853.