Origins Flashcards

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Edgar Allen Poe

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(b. 1809, Boston MA)

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Charles Dickens

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(b. 1812, UK)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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(b. 1804, Salem, MA)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(b. 1803, Boston, MA)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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(b. 1811 Litchfield, CT)

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George Eliot

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(b. 1819, UK)

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Brontë Sisters

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(b. 1810s-20s, West Yorkshire, UK)

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Henry David Thoreau

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(b. 1817, Concord, MA)

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Herman Melville

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(b. 1819, NYC)

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Walt Whitman

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(b. 1819, West Hills, NY)

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Jules Verne

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(b. 1828, France)

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Emily Dickinson

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(b. 1830, Amherst, MA)

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Lewis Carroll

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(b. 1832, UK)

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Mark Twain

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(b. 1835, MO, USA)

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Leo Tolstoy

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(b. 1828, Russia)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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(b. 1821, Moscow, Russia)

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Thomas Hardy

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(b. 1840, UK)

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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(b. 1844, Germany)

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Oscar Wilde

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(b. 1854, Dublin, Ireland)

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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(b. 1859, UK)

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Rudyard Kipling

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(b. 1859, Mumbai, India)

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Ruben Dario

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(b. 1867, Nicaragua)

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Marcel Proust

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(b. 1871, Paris, France)

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Gertrude Stein

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(b. 1874, Pittsburgh, PA)

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James Joyce

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(b. 1882, Ireland)

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T.S. Elliot

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(b. 1888, St. Louis, MO)

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Agatha Christie

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(b. 1890, UK)

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Franz Kafka

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(b. 1883, Prague, Czech Republic)

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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(b. 1892, South Africa)

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Aldous Huxley

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(b. 1894, UK)

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Arthur Miller

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(b. 1915, NYC)

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William Faulkner

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(b. 1897, New Albany, MS)

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John Steinbeck

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(b. 1902, Salinas, CA)

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Pablo Neruda

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(b. 1904, Chile)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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(b. 1896, St Paul, MN)

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Earnest Hemmingway

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(b. 1912, Oak Park, IL)

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J.D. Salinger

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(b. 1919, NYC)

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George Orwell

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(b. 1903, India)

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Gabriel García Márquez

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(b. 1927, Colombia)

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Roald Dahl

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(b. 1916, UK)

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Dr. Seuss

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(b. 1904, Springfield, MA)

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Harper Lee

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(b. 1926, Monroeville, AL)

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Kurt Vonnegut

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(b. 1922, Indianapolis, IN)

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Jack Kerouac

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(b. 1922, Lowell, MA)

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Truman Capote

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(b. 1924, New Orleans, LA)

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Dante Alighieri

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(b. 1265, Florence, IT)

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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(b. Late 1300s, London, UK)

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William Shakespeare

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(b. 1564, UK)

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John Milton

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(b. 1608, London, England)

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William Wordsworth

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(b. 1770, UK)

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Jane Austen

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(b. 1775, UK)

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Washington Irving

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(b. 1783, NYC)

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Robert Frost

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(b. 1874, San Francisco)