Who created Nancy Drew?
Edward Stratemeyer created Nancy Drew, under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
The prolific author died in 1930.
Edward Stratemeyer created Nancy Drew, under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
The prolific author died in 1930.
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.
The series of seven children’s books by C. S. Lewis started in 1950 with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and continued with Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Magician’s Nephew, The Horse and His Boy, and The Last Battle.
The full title of Oliver Twist is Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.
The “Glad Girl” was Pollyanna, in the eponymous 1913 novel by Eleanor Hodgman Porter. She also appeared in the 1915 sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up.
John Greenleaf Whittier describes the bravery of the fictional title character in his poem “Barbara Frietchie” (1863) who said, “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head”. The aged Frietchie displays a Union flag when Confederate troops march by. Stonewall Jackson forbids his troops to harm the old woman.
Bertolt Brecht follows the general outline of English playwright John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), but focuses more on social evils in The Threepenny Opera.