Poems and Poetry
As a poet, Shakespeare is best known for writing 154 of these 14-line poems in iambic pentamer
What are sonnets?
His last completed novels were Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend
Who is Charles Dickens?
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead focuses on two minor characters from this Shakespeare play
What is Hamlet?
His essay "A Modest Proposal" satirized English indifference to Irish poverty
Who is Jonathan Swift?
In 2017, she became the first female author to appear on British currency--specifically, the ten-pound note
Who is Jane Austen?
The author of The Canterbury Tales
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
She published her first novel, Jane Eyre, under the pseudonym Currer Bell
Who is Charlotte Brontë?
The subtitle of this Oscar Wilde comedy is A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
What is The Importance of Being Earnest?
In addition to money, Virginia Woolf in a 1929 book-length essay titled this said a woman needs this in order to write
What is a room of one's own?
After World War I, this author who created some languages of his own worked for the Oxford English Dictionary
Who is J. R. R. Tolkien?
This Romantic poet was married to the author of Frankenstein, which includes his poem "Mutability"
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
The original title of this 1726 novel was Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
What is Gulliver's Travels
Everyman is an example of this type of play from the late Middle Ages and early modern period
What is a morality play?
His memoir Knife recounts his horrific stabbing attack in 2022
Who is Salman Rushdie?
His daughter Ada Lovelace was a mathematician whose work anticipated the modern computer
Who is Lord Byron (George Gordon)?
The phrase that follows Elizabeth Barrett Browning's question "How do I love thee?"
What is "Let me count the ways"
The first name of the title character in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (also the title of a 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson)
What is Clarissa?
What is Mrs. Warren's profession in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession?
What is prostitution?
His book Apologia Pro Vita Sua traced the history of his religious beliefs
Who is John Henry Newman?
In 1920, he was fooled by a hoax involving supposed photographs of fairies
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
The first woman and the first Scottish-born poet appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Who is Carol Ann Duffy?
This Japanese-born British novelist received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
Her plays include Cloud 9 and Top Girls
Who is Caryl Churchill?
His book The Compleat Angler celebrated the art of fishing
Who is Izaak Walton?
J. M. Barrie donated proceeds from Peter Pan to this kind of institution in London?
What is a hospital?