Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 86

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Easy

CLUE : Using her fast feet, she ran directly into his heart, and they became the king and queen of their own land...if only for a little while.

 

Humor Pot 65 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Witty Wordsmiths 149

“For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice.”

~ T.S. Eliot

Picture Pot 36 (Pic Dump)

Home ; Matthew Mazzotta ; Tampa International Airport, Florida

Shirley

Shirley is a social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym, "Currer Bell"). The novel is set in Yorkshire in 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.

    The novel's popularity led to “Shirley” becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon but distinctly male name. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name.

     While Charlotte Brontë was writing Shirley, three of her siblings died. Her brother Branwell died in September 1848, and her sister Emily fell ill and died in December. Brontë resumed writing but then her only remaining sibling, her sister Anne, became ill and died in May 1849.

     Some critics believe that the character of “Caroline Helstone” was loosely based on Anne and it has been speculated that Brontë originally planned to let Caroline die but changed her mind because of her family tragedies; however, Ellen Nussey, Charlotte's lifelong friend, claimed that the character of Caroline was based on herself.

     Charlotte Brontë told Elizabeth Gaskell that “Shirley” is what she believed her sister, Emily Brontë, would have been if she had been born into a wealthy family. Again, Ellen Nussey, who knew Emily as well as anyone outside the family, did not recognise Emily in Shirley.

     The maiden name of “Mrs. Pryor” is “Agnes Grey,” the name of the main character in Anne's first novel. She was based on Margaret Wooler, the principal of Roe Head School, which Brontë attended as both student and teacher.

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 85

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Medium

CLUE : Everyone knows everyone and everything about everyone in this play because this little corner of the world belongs to them all.

 

Art Pot 36 (Pic Dump)

The Road Illustrations ; Cormac McCarthy ; (Illustrator: Gérard Dubois)

WordPlay Pot 41 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Tuesday Doesn't Come After Onesday #188

Witty Wordsmiths 148

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

~ J.D. Salinger

Humor Pot 64 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Music Pot 35 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Great Song Writers: Bob Marley

St Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant

St Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant is an 18th Century play by Irish playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan, first performed on May 2, 1775, at Covent Garden. It is said to have been completed by the author within two days. Sheridan wrote the two-act farce for the benefit performance of lead actor, Laurence Clinch, who had so successfully played "Sir Lucius O'Trigger" in his previous play The Rivals.

Junk Pot 31 (Meme/Pic Dump)

“The Whisky War” is a pseudo-confrontation and border conflict between Denmark and Canada over Hans Island; since the 1930s each country sends its military to remove the other's flag and leave a bottle of their national spirit.

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 84

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Easy

CLUE : When you cause everyone's death trying to figure out who killed your father, you are bound to go a little insane.

 

Movie/Film/TV Pot 35 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Books In Movies: The Shining ; 1980

Witty Wordsmiths 147

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”

~ Hans Christian Andersen