#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Victor Hugo urged the preservation of medieval architecture & his writing led to the restoration of this building from 1844 Notre Dame |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: In Switzerland, you can visit the schoolhouse of little Johanna Spyri, best known as the author of this novel Heidi |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Persuasion", the last book she completed before her death in 1817, was published posthumously Austen |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Everyone "walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death" is a typical cheery line from him in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Hardy |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,800 (Daily Double): The riverboat in Frontierland at Disneyland is named for him Mark Twain |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Bigamy, murder & insanity show up in Mary Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret", a huge bestseller in this proper 19th century era the Victorian Era |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $200: "Everything is evil" wrote the 19th century poet Giacomo Leopardi, who exemplified this glass-half-empty -ism pessimism |
#8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 19th century American's first novel, "Fanshawe", is set at Harley College based on his alma mater, Bowdoin College (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
#8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: This 19th century New England thinker penned the "Concord Hymn" & the essay "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
#7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Martha Finley wrote 28 novels about Elsie, a virtuous Southern girl who lives on these including the Oaks & Roselands plantations |
#7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Johanna Spyri spent summers in the Swiss Alps & used her memories in this book about an orphan girl sent to live there Heidi |
#7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Henrik Ibsen was influenced by Camilla Collett, a 19th c. novelist & women's rights advocate in this, their home country Norway |
#7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Her "Silas Marner" is subtitled "The Weaver of Raveloe" George Eliot |
#7605, aired 2017-10-06 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 3-named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author also penned "A Little Princess" Frances Hodgson Burnett |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: This author wrote that he "wept and laughed, and wept again" while creating "A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Her "Wuthering Heights" was published just 2 months after sister Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" Emily Brontë |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: Look at the haunted eyes of this Russian author... why, he looks like one of the possessed Dostoevsky |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: This English novelist introduced his semi-fictional county of Wessex in "Far from the Madding Crowd" Thomas Hardy |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: This author known for such rags-to-riches stories as "Fame and Fortune" never quite attained riches himself Horatio Alger |
#6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He noted, "I had sent my heroine... down a rabbit-hole... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards" (Lewis) Carroll |
#6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800 (Daily Double): Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" Louisa May Alcott |
#6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells |
#6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre" Jules Verne |
#6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels Northanger Abbey |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $400: Kate Chopin set many works in this city; her early story "A No-Account Creole" begins there New Orleans |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Many of her novels dealt with slavery, including "Dred" & a certain 1852 bestseller (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $1200: Author Frances Hodgson Burnett based the long curls of this title pampered "Lord" on her son Vivian's Lord Fauntleroy |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $2000: The youngest of the sisters, Anne Bronte penned "The Tenant of" this residence in 1848 but died from TB a year later Wildfell Hall |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Amantine-Lucille-Aurore Dupin was the real name of this "manly" authoress whose love life scandalized Paris George Sand |
#4812, aired 2005-07-05 | AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century English author also wrote the books "Curiosa Mathematica" & "Symbolic Logic" Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: To defend the accuracy of her blockbuster book, she wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1853 Harriet Beecher Stowe |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Having no war experience of his own, he wrote "The Red Badge of Courage" based on information from reading Tolstoy Stephen Crane |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Yeats called this "Lenore" author "Always and for all lands a great lyric poet" Edgar Allan Poe |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This "American Scholar" author settled in Concord, Massachusetts in 1834 Ralph Waldo Emerson |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: The "old manse" in the title of his 1846 short story collection "Mosses from an Old Manse" was his Salem home Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#3816, aired 2001-03-19 | AUTHORS $600: 19th century author Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name George Eliot |
#2896, aired 1997-03-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His 1993 novel "Gai-Jin" takes place in 19th century Japan James Clavell |
#2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $200: His first novel, "The Snake's Pass", was published in 1890, 7 years before "Dracula" Bram Stoker |
#2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $400: His monumental collection "La Comedie Humaine" encompasses about 90 novels & stories Honore De Balzac |
#2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $600: This novelist's mother, Frances Trollope, wrote a derogatory book about American manners in 1832 Anthony Trollope |
#2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country" is a children's book by this creator of Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris |
#2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: This author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" served as U.S. consul in Glasgow 1880-85 Bret Harte |
#1799, aired 1992-05-28 | AUTHORS $400: A 19th century Boston Unitarian minister, he was the grandnephew of Nathan Hale Edward Everett Hale |
#1272, aired 1990-02-27 | FRENCH AUTHORS $400: His 19th century novels such as "The Mysterious Island" foretold the submarine, the aqua lung & TV Jules Verne |
#1239, aired 1990-01-11 | AUTHORS $600: Sidney Lanier's novel "Tiger Lillies" was based on his experiences in this 19th century war U.S. Civil War |
#657, aired 1987-06-16 | PSEUDONYMS $200: First name in pseudonyms of 19th century female authors "Sand" & "Eliot" George |
#8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
#8155, aired 2020-02-07 | QUOTES ABOUT 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author "showed that abysses may exist inside a governess", a heroine who was a "commonplace spinster" Charlotte Brontë |
#7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah Rudyard Kipling |
#7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker" Mark Twain |
#7541, aired 2017-05-29 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll |
#7074, aired 2015-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In an essay, he wrote, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" Thoreau |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: His works include "Sylvie and Bruno", "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" & "Algebraic Formulae and Rules" Lewis Carroll |
#6304, aired 2012-02-02 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows" Robert Louis Stevenson |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1833 a French historian said that this author had built "a cathedral as solid as the foundations of the other (one)" Victor Hugo |
#5217, aired 2007-04-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..." Thoreau |
#3908, aired 2001-09-05 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence called him "an adventurer into the vaults and...
horrible underground passages of the human soul" Edgar Allan Poe |
#2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: He rejected offers to run for Congress & Mayor of New York & to be Van Buren's Secretary of the Navy Washington Irving |
#2292, aired 1994-07-19 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence said he probably did "more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man" James Fenimore Cooper |
#1924, aired 1993-01-07 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1863 he published his rules for castle croquet, which he played with the Liddell Sisters Lewis Carroll |