Who created Tom Swift?
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton created Tom Swift.
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton created Tom Swift.
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.
Gloriana was the name of the Faerie Queene in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590-96).
Clifford Odets wrote a play called Paradise Lost that was not based on Milton’s poem, in 1935. The play was about the fall of a middle-class family.
Daisy Miller’s real name is Annie Miller. She appears in Henry James’s short novel Daisy Miller (1878).
John Updike has written four Rabbit novels: Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990). The hero of all four is Harry Angstrom, nicknamed “Rabbit.”
Finnegan in Finnegans Wake is an Irish hod carrier who dies after a fall. At his wake, he is momentarily returned to life at the mention of the word “whiskey.” The name also refers to legendary Irish hero Finn MacCool, who is supposed to “wake again” someday to save Ireland.