Crossings 2018 Senior Class presents:
“Enlightenment Week” through The Living Museum
consisting of Great Men and Women of the Enlightenment
and Characters from Major Works of the Period.
1 – Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English philosopher, statesman, jurist, orator, and author; strong advocate of scientific method
(Derek Mecklenburg)
2 - Dr. Victor Frankenstein
from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Shelley was born in London in 1797 to Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. When she was young, she married Percy Bysshe Shelley, a poet. Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein at the age of eighteen, when she was in Geneva. Victor Frankenstein is the main character in the novel, and he is the creator of the famous monster Frankenstein
(Nancy Wilkinson)
3 – John Locke (1632–1704)
Changed the way that we view politics in modern times by emphasizing the importance of democracy
(Tanner Tompkins)
4 – William Crimsworth
from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte who was born in Yorkshire in 1816. She also wrote Jane Eyre and Villette. William Crimsworth is the main character of The Professor. He travels to Brussels to become a teacher and teaches English to the students there. The novel is about his time teaching there and the evolution of his relationship with one of his students who is also a teacher at the same school.
(Andrew Clinkenbeard)
5 - Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726)
Renowned scientist, mathematician, alchemist, astronomer, philosopher.
(Elliot Smith)
6 - Pangloss
From Candide by Voltaire. Pangloss is a professor who teaches at the baron’s castle. He teaches the boy named Candide who the novel is based around. He is famous for his theory stating that this is best of all possible worlds. After the baron’s castle is invaded by Bulgarians, Pangloss is left as a beggar on the streets. He goes on an adventure with Candide who constantly debates whether to believe Pangloss’s theory or not. Voltaire, the author of Candide, was born on November 21st of 1694 in Paris. He writes Candide as a satire used to criticize the period’s figures of authority. His portrayal of Pangloss is similar to the philosophies of the Enlightenment
(Mason Coffey)
7 - Jane Eyre
from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. She was born in 1867 in Yorkshire, England, Bronte’s most famous literary character is Jane Eyre. Jane experiences physical and verbal abuse through her childhood and teenage years. Once Jane finishes school, she begins her first job as a governess at a wealthy estate in the English countryside. Jane ends up running away from her commitments because she was afraid. Once she realizes her mistake, Jane returns to her life at the wealthy estate to find love with her employer
(Georgie Franklin)
8 - Emma
from Emma by Jane Austen. Author Jane Austen was born on December 16 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She is primarily known for her six major novels which comment mainly on British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. I will be portraying Emma, the main character in one of her most popular books
(Laura Frederickson)
9 - Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
brilliant essayist, conversationalist and lexicographer; wrote the first English dictionary
(Trip Dlugonski III)
10 - James Boswell (1740-1795)
known as one of the best biographical authors ever. His vivid details when writing still impact the world of writing today; long friend of Samuel Johnson, lexicographer
(Chase Johnson)
11 – Ambrosio
from The Monk by Matthew Lewis (1775-1818) Author Matthew Lewis was a product of the growth of the gothic novel. Inspired by Walpole and Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lewis decided to write his own variation on the gothic novel in the Netherlands and published The Monk anonymously in 1796. His character, Ambrosio, is the abbot of a monastery located in Madrid, Spain. He is considered nearly infallible as the novel opens but as the narrative progresses he falls from his standing and comes face to face with Lucifer himself as he is forced to atone for the heinous acts that he has perpetrated
(Lauren Cline)
12 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
prolific musician and composer of 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of chamber, operatic, and choral music
(Ethan Grayson)
13 – Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. Founder of the Spectator magazine
(Anderson Inman)
14 – Daniel Defoe (1660- 1731)
Wrote pamphlets, and fictional stories and was a journalist and merchant. Father of English novel. (Parker Balan)
15 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 – 1799)
Humanitarian, philosopher, and mathematician
(Alyssa Owens)
16 - Aramis
from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas In the swashbuckling third installment of Dumas’s world famous series The Three Musketeers, Aramis, one of the original of the four band of brothers, internally wrestles with the desires of his heart and mind. As a revered priest and diplomat in the French court of King Louis XIV, his influence was great and his opinions accepted. Despite all of this, he risked not only his own station and reputation, but also those of Athos, Porthos, and D’Artagnan, to soothe the selfish desires of his heart, even though they cost him everything.
(Taylor Middendorf)
17 - Ishmael
from Moby Dick by Herman Melville One of the main characters in Herman Melville’s book Moby-Dick; this book was written in 1851 between the Enlightenment and Antebellum periods. Ishmael learned to respect people for who they were. Ishmael learned through his experience in whaling that religion and social status didn’t define man; a man’s character is more important
(Jessie Muckleroy)
18 - Jude Fawley
from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Hardy (1840-1928) used Jude as a challenge to the values and social structure of Victorian Society in his final novel. Hardy was known for many other novels in which he continually criticized Victorian society, the criticism of which eventually forced him to poetry
(Matthew O’Brien)
19 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
She was a poet, a scientist, and an advocate of women’s rights
(Grayson Weast)
20 - Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Known for his famous writings of “Common Sense,” he made a huge impact during the Age of Enlightenment. Son of a poor Quaker, who worked as a stay maker, Paine was also his father’s apprentice until he started work in the real world. He worked many different jobs but would have no success just constant failure even if he were trying to do the right thing, he still was fired from his job. He met Thomas Jefferson and came to America to write “Common Sense” which became a symbol during the War of Independence. He left America and got in trouble with the law but escaped his execution by fleeing to France and then returned to America in 1803 to find everyone had forgotten about him.
(Tyler Jackson)
21 - Fanny
from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, England, in 1775. Throughout her childhood, she was very close to her family. She incorporates some of her own experiences in her works. In Mansfield Park, Austen creates a character named Fanny Price. Fanny is a girl from humble upbringings who goes to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle at age 10. This experience changes her. She is conditioned to think similarly to the way her cousins do. In the end, Fanny ends up marrying her cousins, whom she had loved from the beginning of the novel
(Rylie Gibbs)
22 - D’Artagnan
from The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas The young hero of the story begins the novel as a rather penniless boy from Gascony coming to Paris to make his fortune. After a few false starts, we learn that he is great with a sword and he is brave to the last... and he has a propensity to fall head-over-heels in love. Yes, he is a lover and a fighter
(Kali Gibson)
23 - Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832)
English author, philosopher, and social reformer; founder of
modern utilitarianism and theorizer of the panopticon
(Jared DeMunbrun)
24 - Walter Shandy
from Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne is the father of the narrator of the novel, Tristram. He is kind of full of himself, boring, and has a pretty short fuse. The author, Laurence Sterne, is known for using the characters in his novels to talk about his own ideas. In Tristram Shandy, Walter is used to speak about Sterne’s philosophical ideas. During the Enlightenment era, Sterne’s novels were unusual and satiric.
(Matt Ives)
25 - Candide
from Candide by Voltaire Born in 1694 in Paris to a wealthy father and aristocratic mother, François-Marie Arouet was a prominent figure of the High Enlightenment. He is widely known for his philosophical disagreements with other French philosophes of the time. Candide, the titular character of Voltaire’s most famous work, is an orphan who grows up in the household of the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, where he is under the tutelage of Pangloss
(Julia Grantham)
26 - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
writer, philosopher and advocate of women’s rights
(Delanie Mayfield)
27 - Catherine the Great (1729-1769)
Overthrew her husband and became the empress of Russia.
Notably, she started a national education system in Russia for both sexes
(Alexis Redwine)
28 - Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer,
one of the first women to earn a living by writing
(Brittany Rubins)
29 - Hester Thrale (1741-1821)
She was a wife, lover, and significant writer of the 16th and 17th century
(Elyce Clark)
30 - Madame Bovary
from Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (1821-1880), a French novelist during the time of the Enlightenment. Flaubert was born and lived his entire live in Rouen, France. Inventive and creative as well as stubborn and persistent, Flaubert’s circumstances greatly affected his writing. In Madame Bovary, Madame Bovary represents Flaubert’s feelings during the Enlightenment as she describes feeling trapped in a middle class life
(Grace Hill)
31 - Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
wrote the famous book Evelina and other major works
(Ally Huxley)
32 - Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
novelist, famous 18th century writer and printer;
impersonating Clarissa from his famous novel Clarissa
(Hallie Locke)
33 - Silas Marner
Silas Marner by George Eliot (the pen name used by Mary Ann Evans. Evans was born in Chilvers Coton, England in 1819. She fell in love with George Lewes, who she considered to be her inspiration. After his death, she felt that she could write no more. She did, however, enter shortly into an unhappy marriage with American man who attempted suicide on their honeymoon by jumping in the Grand Canal in Venice. Silas Marner is the title character in this novel. He is a weaver from a small town in England, very similar to the one in which Evans was raised. He endured a life of tragedy until he met his future daughter, Eppie, who was his pride and joy
(Matthew Loper)
34 – Madame Louise d’Epinay (1702–1783)
French writer, saloniste and woman of fashion.
Fought for women’s rights and education through her writing
(Grace Johnson)
35 – Agnes Grey
from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. Anne Bronte was born on January 17, 1820, and died of tuberculosis on May 28, 1849. She was the youngest of six children; two of her older sisters were Charlotte and Emily Bronte, the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Agnes Grey was first published in December of 1847 with Wuthering Heights. Due to the numerous parallels between Agnes Grey and Anne Bronte’s life, many believe that Agnes Grey is semi-autobiographical. For example, in Agnes Grey, Agnes is the youngest of six siblings—same as Bronte. Agnes leaves home at the age of eighteen to become a governess—same as Bronte. So, it is not too far to venture to say that Bronte’s character Agnes is a mere reflection of herself. Agnes is a submissive daughter and a diligent worker. She has a deep care for all humanity and animals
(Allison Crampton)
36 - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
was one of the fathers of modern philosophy,
He changed the ways of mathematics and science by making it more modern
(Joseph Smith)
37 – Lemuel Gulliver
from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Swift was born in 1667 and died in 1745. Although he was born in Dublin, Ireland, his parents were English, and he traveled to and even lived in England numerous times throughout his life. After the Glorious Revolution, he moved to Moor Park in England where he studied under Sir William Temple. Soon after he began publishing and used his genius to express his personal beliefs and battle those he disagreed with through satire. His most famous character is Lemuel Gulliver. He was an adventurous doctor who could not resist the chance to board a ship and embark on ocean expeditions to foreign lands. Because of his hunger for adventure, he often found himself in strange places.
(Abri Pocock)
38 - Elinor Dashwood
from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Austen was born on the sixteenth of December in 1775 to George and Cassandra Austen. She had seven siblings, and to pass the free time they would often put on plays-some originals, even. This may have attributed to Austen’s career as a writer. One of the main characters in Austen’s first novel Sense and Sensibility is the logical and level-headed Elinor Dashwood, who is said to have been written based on her beloved sister, Cassandra Austen. Elinor Dashwood is a large part of the reason Sense and Sensibility has such a devoted cult-following even today
(Ellie Rahil)
39 - Sermyon Zakharovich Marmeladov
from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in 1821 in Moscow and died in 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia. His most popular novel was Crime and Punishment, which was published in 1866. Dostoevsky was fascinated with death from his early childhood, and explored the concept throughout all of his works. Character Sermyon Zakharovich Marmeladov is a hopeless alcoholic who ruins his life through the life of being a drunk. This strands his family without a source of income, forcing his oldest daughter into prostitution. Marmeladov is eventually run over by a cart and dies.
(Luke Santos)
40 - Robinson Crusoe
from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in London, England, to a well off family, who sent him to a Dissenting academy, where he studied under the minister Charles Morton. He worked as a spy for both Tories and Whigs, as well as a pamphleteer for William III, and a merchant. He achieved literary mortality, when in 1719, he wrote his most well known work, Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe is the main character from Defoe’s novel. He is a young, obstinate man who rebelled, leaving home for adventure against his father’s wishes. After a series of misfortunes, he ends up shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, where he lives for several years in peace
(John Mark Mulder)
41 – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Founding father, inventor, scientist, printer, politician,
freemason, philosopher, used the scientific method
(Alex Danner)
42 – Dr. Charles Primrose
from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) who published the novel in 1766 and is well-versed in multiple genres, some of which were incorporated into his novel. The character Dr. Primrose is the father of the Primrose F amily whose daughter is tricked into a false marriage and whose home is burned down sending him to jail because he could not pay rent; the story also is about his personal journey as much as it his about his family and their recovery from misfortune
(Gabe Cohlmia)
43 - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
American philosopher, founding father, farmer, governor, architect, lawyer, inventor, author, and president; drafted the Declaration of Independence, which brought freedom to the United States
(Alec Amend)
44 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
German composer and musician
(Justin King)
45 – Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)
father of international law, Dutch jurist, natural law
(Bryson Tyler)
46 – Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Best known for his book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes was a political philosopher,
scientist, and strong advocator for the reform of Aristotelian ideas
(Trystan Helterbrand)
47 - Mannfred
from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. This is usually thought of as the first Gothic novel in English literature. The novel relates the history of Manfred, the prince of Otranto, who is keen to secure the castle for his descendants in the face of a mysterious curse. At the beginning of the work Mannfred’s son, Conrad, is crushed to death by an enormous helmet on the morning of his wedding to the beautiful princess Isabella. Faced with the extinction of his line, Manfred vows to divorce his wife and marry the terrified Isabella himself
(Noah Peck)
48 - The Prince The Idiot
was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who wrote many works and often focused on certain problems in society. He was born in 1821 and lived through 1881, enduring many unique circumstances in his life that led to certain events and circumstances he eventually would write about. He originally was born in a working-class family, but after his father had some economic fortune, was able to receive an education before he started his successful writing career. Prince Myshkin is the protagonist of The Idiot, and is seen as an‘idiot’ because of his complete and total innocence, although he actually possesses a unique ability to understand other people, and what they are hiding, very well. He also struggles with a disease known as ‘idiocy,’ as well as epilepsy, but does not let these problems stop him from attempting to focus on helping others as much as he can.
(Derek Philliber)
49 - Maria Sibylla Menan (1647-1717)
Female artist and entomologist who left her husband to travel
the world with her two daughters in order to learn about nature
(Bri Coleman)
“Enlightenment Week” through The Living Museum
consisting of Great Men and Women of the Enlightenment
and Characters from Major Works of the Period.
1 – Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English philosopher, statesman, jurist, orator, and author; strong advocate of scientific method
(Derek Mecklenburg)
2 - Dr. Victor Frankenstein
from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Shelley was born in London in 1797 to Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. When she was young, she married Percy Bysshe Shelley, a poet. Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein at the age of eighteen, when she was in Geneva. Victor Frankenstein is the main character in the novel, and he is the creator of the famous monster Frankenstein
(Nancy Wilkinson)
3 – John Locke (1632–1704)
Changed the way that we view politics in modern times by emphasizing the importance of democracy
(Tanner Tompkins)
4 – William Crimsworth
from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte who was born in Yorkshire in 1816. She also wrote Jane Eyre and Villette. William Crimsworth is the main character of The Professor. He travels to Brussels to become a teacher and teaches English to the students there. The novel is about his time teaching there and the evolution of his relationship with one of his students who is also a teacher at the same school.
(Andrew Clinkenbeard)
5 - Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726)
Renowned scientist, mathematician, alchemist, astronomer, philosopher.
(Elliot Smith)
6 - Pangloss
From Candide by Voltaire. Pangloss is a professor who teaches at the baron’s castle. He teaches the boy named Candide who the novel is based around. He is famous for his theory stating that this is best of all possible worlds. After the baron’s castle is invaded by Bulgarians, Pangloss is left as a beggar on the streets. He goes on an adventure with Candide who constantly debates whether to believe Pangloss’s theory or not. Voltaire, the author of Candide, was born on November 21st of 1694 in Paris. He writes Candide as a satire used to criticize the period’s figures of authority. His portrayal of Pangloss is similar to the philosophies of the Enlightenment
(Mason Coffey)
7 - Jane Eyre
from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. She was born in 1867 in Yorkshire, England, Bronte’s most famous literary character is Jane Eyre. Jane experiences physical and verbal abuse through her childhood and teenage years. Once Jane finishes school, she begins her first job as a governess at a wealthy estate in the English countryside. Jane ends up running away from her commitments because she was afraid. Once she realizes her mistake, Jane returns to her life at the wealthy estate to find love with her employer
(Georgie Franklin)
8 - Emma
from Emma by Jane Austen. Author Jane Austen was born on December 16 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She is primarily known for her six major novels which comment mainly on British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. I will be portraying Emma, the main character in one of her most popular books
(Laura Frederickson)
9 - Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
brilliant essayist, conversationalist and lexicographer; wrote the first English dictionary
(Trip Dlugonski III)
10 - James Boswell (1740-1795)
known as one of the best biographical authors ever. His vivid details when writing still impact the world of writing today; long friend of Samuel Johnson, lexicographer
(Chase Johnson)
11 – Ambrosio
from The Monk by Matthew Lewis (1775-1818) Author Matthew Lewis was a product of the growth of the gothic novel. Inspired by Walpole and Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lewis decided to write his own variation on the gothic novel in the Netherlands and published The Monk anonymously in 1796. His character, Ambrosio, is the abbot of a monastery located in Madrid, Spain. He is considered nearly infallible as the novel opens but as the narrative progresses he falls from his standing and comes face to face with Lucifer himself as he is forced to atone for the heinous acts that he has perpetrated
(Lauren Cline)
12 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
prolific musician and composer of 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of chamber, operatic, and choral music
(Ethan Grayson)
13 – Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. Founder of the Spectator magazine
(Anderson Inman)
14 – Daniel Defoe (1660- 1731)
Wrote pamphlets, and fictional stories and was a journalist and merchant. Father of English novel. (Parker Balan)
15 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 – 1799)
Humanitarian, philosopher, and mathematician
(Alyssa Owens)
16 - Aramis
from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas In the swashbuckling third installment of Dumas’s world famous series The Three Musketeers, Aramis, one of the original of the four band of brothers, internally wrestles with the desires of his heart and mind. As a revered priest and diplomat in the French court of King Louis XIV, his influence was great and his opinions accepted. Despite all of this, he risked not only his own station and reputation, but also those of Athos, Porthos, and D’Artagnan, to soothe the selfish desires of his heart, even though they cost him everything.
(Taylor Middendorf)
17 - Ishmael
from Moby Dick by Herman Melville One of the main characters in Herman Melville’s book Moby-Dick; this book was written in 1851 between the Enlightenment and Antebellum periods. Ishmael learned to respect people for who they were. Ishmael learned through his experience in whaling that religion and social status didn’t define man; a man’s character is more important
(Jessie Muckleroy)
18 - Jude Fawley
from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Hardy (1840-1928) used Jude as a challenge to the values and social structure of Victorian Society in his final novel. Hardy was known for many other novels in which he continually criticized Victorian society, the criticism of which eventually forced him to poetry
(Matthew O’Brien)
19 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
She was a poet, a scientist, and an advocate of women’s rights
(Grayson Weast)
20 - Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Known for his famous writings of “Common Sense,” he made a huge impact during the Age of Enlightenment. Son of a poor Quaker, who worked as a stay maker, Paine was also his father’s apprentice until he started work in the real world. He worked many different jobs but would have no success just constant failure even if he were trying to do the right thing, he still was fired from his job. He met Thomas Jefferson and came to America to write “Common Sense” which became a symbol during the War of Independence. He left America and got in trouble with the law but escaped his execution by fleeing to France and then returned to America in 1803 to find everyone had forgotten about him.
(Tyler Jackson)
21 - Fanny
from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, England, in 1775. Throughout her childhood, she was very close to her family. She incorporates some of her own experiences in her works. In Mansfield Park, Austen creates a character named Fanny Price. Fanny is a girl from humble upbringings who goes to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle at age 10. This experience changes her. She is conditioned to think similarly to the way her cousins do. In the end, Fanny ends up marrying her cousins, whom she had loved from the beginning of the novel
(Rylie Gibbs)
22 - D’Artagnan
from The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas The young hero of the story begins the novel as a rather penniless boy from Gascony coming to Paris to make his fortune. After a few false starts, we learn that he is great with a sword and he is brave to the last... and he has a propensity to fall head-over-heels in love. Yes, he is a lover and a fighter
(Kali Gibson)
23 - Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832)
English author, philosopher, and social reformer; founder of
modern utilitarianism and theorizer of the panopticon
(Jared DeMunbrun)
24 - Walter Shandy
from Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne is the father of the narrator of the novel, Tristram. He is kind of full of himself, boring, and has a pretty short fuse. The author, Laurence Sterne, is known for using the characters in his novels to talk about his own ideas. In Tristram Shandy, Walter is used to speak about Sterne’s philosophical ideas. During the Enlightenment era, Sterne’s novels were unusual and satiric.
(Matt Ives)
25 - Candide
from Candide by Voltaire Born in 1694 in Paris to a wealthy father and aristocratic mother, François-Marie Arouet was a prominent figure of the High Enlightenment. He is widely known for his philosophical disagreements with other French philosophes of the time. Candide, the titular character of Voltaire’s most famous work, is an orphan who grows up in the household of the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, where he is under the tutelage of Pangloss
(Julia Grantham)
26 - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
writer, philosopher and advocate of women’s rights
(Delanie Mayfield)
27 - Catherine the Great (1729-1769)
Overthrew her husband and became the empress of Russia.
Notably, she started a national education system in Russia for both sexes
(Alexis Redwine)
28 - Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer,
one of the first women to earn a living by writing
(Brittany Rubins)
29 - Hester Thrale (1741-1821)
She was a wife, lover, and significant writer of the 16th and 17th century
(Elyce Clark)
30 - Madame Bovary
from Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (1821-1880), a French novelist during the time of the Enlightenment. Flaubert was born and lived his entire live in Rouen, France. Inventive and creative as well as stubborn and persistent, Flaubert’s circumstances greatly affected his writing. In Madame Bovary, Madame Bovary represents Flaubert’s feelings during the Enlightenment as she describes feeling trapped in a middle class life
(Grace Hill)
31 - Fanny Burney (1752-1840)
wrote the famous book Evelina and other major works
(Ally Huxley)
32 - Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
novelist, famous 18th century writer and printer;
impersonating Clarissa from his famous novel Clarissa
(Hallie Locke)
33 - Silas Marner
Silas Marner by George Eliot (the pen name used by Mary Ann Evans. Evans was born in Chilvers Coton, England in 1819. She fell in love with George Lewes, who she considered to be her inspiration. After his death, she felt that she could write no more. She did, however, enter shortly into an unhappy marriage with American man who attempted suicide on their honeymoon by jumping in the Grand Canal in Venice. Silas Marner is the title character in this novel. He is a weaver from a small town in England, very similar to the one in which Evans was raised. He endured a life of tragedy until he met his future daughter, Eppie, who was his pride and joy
(Matthew Loper)
34 – Madame Louise d’Epinay (1702–1783)
French writer, saloniste and woman of fashion.
Fought for women’s rights and education through her writing
(Grace Johnson)
35 – Agnes Grey
from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. Anne Bronte was born on January 17, 1820, and died of tuberculosis on May 28, 1849. She was the youngest of six children; two of her older sisters were Charlotte and Emily Bronte, the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Agnes Grey was first published in December of 1847 with Wuthering Heights. Due to the numerous parallels between Agnes Grey and Anne Bronte’s life, many believe that Agnes Grey is semi-autobiographical. For example, in Agnes Grey, Agnes is the youngest of six siblings—same as Bronte. Agnes leaves home at the age of eighteen to become a governess—same as Bronte. So, it is not too far to venture to say that Bronte’s character Agnes is a mere reflection of herself. Agnes is a submissive daughter and a diligent worker. She has a deep care for all humanity and animals
(Allison Crampton)
36 - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
was one of the fathers of modern philosophy,
He changed the ways of mathematics and science by making it more modern
(Joseph Smith)
37 – Lemuel Gulliver
from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Swift was born in 1667 and died in 1745. Although he was born in Dublin, Ireland, his parents were English, and he traveled to and even lived in England numerous times throughout his life. After the Glorious Revolution, he moved to Moor Park in England where he studied under Sir William Temple. Soon after he began publishing and used his genius to express his personal beliefs and battle those he disagreed with through satire. His most famous character is Lemuel Gulliver. He was an adventurous doctor who could not resist the chance to board a ship and embark on ocean expeditions to foreign lands. Because of his hunger for adventure, he often found himself in strange places.
(Abri Pocock)
38 - Elinor Dashwood
from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Austen was born on the sixteenth of December in 1775 to George and Cassandra Austen. She had seven siblings, and to pass the free time they would often put on plays-some originals, even. This may have attributed to Austen’s career as a writer. One of the main characters in Austen’s first novel Sense and Sensibility is the logical and level-headed Elinor Dashwood, who is said to have been written based on her beloved sister, Cassandra Austen. Elinor Dashwood is a large part of the reason Sense and Sensibility has such a devoted cult-following even today
(Ellie Rahil)
39 - Sermyon Zakharovich Marmeladov
from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in 1821 in Moscow and died in 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia. His most popular novel was Crime and Punishment, which was published in 1866. Dostoevsky was fascinated with death from his early childhood, and explored the concept throughout all of his works. Character Sermyon Zakharovich Marmeladov is a hopeless alcoholic who ruins his life through the life of being a drunk. This strands his family without a source of income, forcing his oldest daughter into prostitution. Marmeladov is eventually run over by a cart and dies.
(Luke Santos)
40 - Robinson Crusoe
from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 in London, England, to a well off family, who sent him to a Dissenting academy, where he studied under the minister Charles Morton. He worked as a spy for both Tories and Whigs, as well as a pamphleteer for William III, and a merchant. He achieved literary mortality, when in 1719, he wrote his most well known work, Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe is the main character from Defoe’s novel. He is a young, obstinate man who rebelled, leaving home for adventure against his father’s wishes. After a series of misfortunes, he ends up shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, where he lives for several years in peace
(John Mark Mulder)
41 – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Founding father, inventor, scientist, printer, politician,
freemason, philosopher, used the scientific method
(Alex Danner)
42 – Dr. Charles Primrose
from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) who published the novel in 1766 and is well-versed in multiple genres, some of which were incorporated into his novel. The character Dr. Primrose is the father of the Primrose F amily whose daughter is tricked into a false marriage and whose home is burned down sending him to jail because he could not pay rent; the story also is about his personal journey as much as it his about his family and their recovery from misfortune
(Gabe Cohlmia)
43 - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
American philosopher, founding father, farmer, governor, architect, lawyer, inventor, author, and president; drafted the Declaration of Independence, which brought freedom to the United States
(Alec Amend)
44 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
German composer and musician
(Justin King)
45 – Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)
father of international law, Dutch jurist, natural law
(Bryson Tyler)
46 – Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Best known for his book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes was a political philosopher,
scientist, and strong advocator for the reform of Aristotelian ideas
(Trystan Helterbrand)
47 - Mannfred
from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. This is usually thought of as the first Gothic novel in English literature. The novel relates the history of Manfred, the prince of Otranto, who is keen to secure the castle for his descendants in the face of a mysterious curse. At the beginning of the work Mannfred’s son, Conrad, is crushed to death by an enormous helmet on the morning of his wedding to the beautiful princess Isabella. Faced with the extinction of his line, Manfred vows to divorce his wife and marry the terrified Isabella himself
(Noah Peck)
48 - The Prince The Idiot
was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who wrote many works and often focused on certain problems in society. He was born in 1821 and lived through 1881, enduring many unique circumstances in his life that led to certain events and circumstances he eventually would write about. He originally was born in a working-class family, but after his father had some economic fortune, was able to receive an education before he started his successful writing career. Prince Myshkin is the protagonist of The Idiot, and is seen as an‘idiot’ because of his complete and total innocence, although he actually possesses a unique ability to understand other people, and what they are hiding, very well. He also struggles with a disease known as ‘idiocy,’ as well as epilepsy, but does not let these problems stop him from attempting to focus on helping others as much as he can.
(Derek Philliber)
49 - Maria Sibylla Menan (1647-1717)
Female artist and entomologist who left her husband to travel
the world with her two daughters in order to learn about nature
(Bri Coleman)
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