The Italian religious epic Jerusalem Delivered, written in 1575 by Torquato Tasso (1544-95), concerns the First Crusade, in which European Christians fought to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims.
The First Crusade lasted from 1095 to 1099.
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
The E.H. in E. H. Shepard stands for Ernest Howard. Shepard illustrated A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books (1926-28) and the 1931 edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908).
Ahab’s harpooneers in Moby Dick were Queequeg, Tashtego, and Daggoo.
The first sentence of Herman Melville’s Moby Diek was “Call me Ishmael.”
No, they used male pseudonyms: Charlotte was Currer Bell; Emily was Ellis Bell; and Anne was Acton Bell.
The books of the Pentateuch are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Named from Greek penta (five) and teuchos (book), tradition assigned their authorship to Moses.