"His creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, became the highest-paid author of his generation."
"Shakespeare's gravestone in Holy Trinity Church Stratford is one of England's most visited landmarks."
"Imagine a country where many people have become convinced that much of what we know about William Shakespeare is wrong thanks to the efforts of one dedicated man."
"Louisa May Alcott: the first American woman to earn a living as a writer."
"Let's end on a high note... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... banned in China for depicting talking animals."
"The oldest piece of surviving literature we know about—The Epic of Gilgamesh—portrays a 'victim' werewolf in what is widely considered the oldest werewolf story on record."
"The Jungle Book was originally a novel by Rudyard Kipling published in 1894."
"The Homeric poems were created orally, passed on orally, not written down, so what we have reflects centuries of bards passing on bits of the poem, always creative."
"The Pickwick Papers is kind of considered as Charles Dickens' first real novel, I guess, but it is his response to his publisher's request for a monthly series of sporting sketches, and it became the most famous of all pre-Victorian novels."
"Gernsback's Amazing Stories birthed the modern genre, emphasizing idea over character."
"On this spot... one of the greatest writers of all time was born."
"When it comes to Wild dramatic Moors, it has to be the Brontës' Yorkshire."
"Hundreds of love letters and keys were found inside a bronze statue of Juliet from Shakespeare's most famous tragedy."
"The special friendship between Carol and Alice little resulted in one of the greatest children's books ever written."
"She is believed to have been the influence for Charles Dickens when he came to creating the character of Miss Havisham in one of his most acclaimed novels, Great Expectations."
"Edgar Allan Poe was America's first truly great writer."
"Remarkably, the author of this treasure trove of whimsical literature was born of tough meloning stock."
"Jabberwocky's origin was in 1855... he actually handily explained what all those words meant."
"Arthurian legends... basically are the first things you could argue are fantasy in some sense."
"The prolific author, Agatha Christie, met her husband on the Orient Express."
"What happened to Shakespeare during these Lost Years?"
"The Great Gatsby's publication in 1925 to Fitzgerald's death in 1940, a mere 25,000 copies were sold."
"Easy to read novels full of tropes plot holes and mediocre writing are just as much a part of the historic Legacy of American literature as Louisa May Alcott Harper Lee meline Miller Ernest Hemingway and RL Stein."
"Heduana wrote a collection of 42 hymns which are today considered the first written stories by a named author." - The narrator
"Historians can and do admit complexity. We revel in it, really. Historians love complexity."
"Welsh literature was rising in prominence during the romantic movement."
"Most of the characters and names in Winnie the Pooh were based on creator A.A. Milne’s son’s toys and stuffed animals."
"Poe’s writing career started to pick up in the early 1830s."
"HP Lovecraft never had a book published commercially in his lifetime."
"I ordered a 119-year-old book online and quite a few pages are uncut, meaning no one ever read it."
"Women have burnt like beacons in the works of poets from the beginning of time."
"The young William Hazlitt visited Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798."
"Starting in 1950, his short story 'Report on the Barnhouse Effect' was published in 'Kier's Magazine's February 11th issue."
"Eliot published The Waste Land late in the year 1922."
"In this lecture I will trace the long and multi-facet history of Joyce's Ulysses in the United States, a history rich in its diversity and proof of the book's authority to alter society."
"It is my expert opinion that it is highly probable that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford is the author of the q1 question documents."
"It's a wonderful record after eight years, fantastic when you think of it, of the massive minds and people who think about Shakespeare believing the man from Stratford wrote the plays."
"In Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford as Shakespeare, we have a writer-director with a strong personality, who was expert at placing his words on the stage, who drew extensively on the people and places in his life to reimagine source texts."
"The first woman in English History to publish an English language book of her own authorship."
"Can we finally look into the eyes of Charlotte Bronte? Can we now put a face to the author of Wuthering Heights?"
"Browning lived in Italy, Keats died in Italy, Shelley was drowned in Italy. Lots of reasons."
"We are living one of the greatest stretches of chapters of all time."
"Who was Homer? Does his story go back to real events?"
"We may never know whether there was a single compiler of the Arabian Nights or whether the stories were simply culled from legends and folktales accumulated throughout Asia and the Middle East."
"With the appearance of Antoine Galland's translation, the public fell in love with the stories."
"It's not a novel, it's a biography of the Romantic Poets and their lives and all the scandalous affairs that went down."
"200 years ago on December 23rd, the Night Before Christmas was published, which is just so magical."
"The great author evidently wanted people to know that William Shakespeare was a pseudonym."
"The werewolf might be as old as literature itself."
"...it may even be the first novel in English History..."
"Watership Down went on to make publishing history."
"What an incredible thing, that the idea that Moncrief signed this translation of Swann's Way and gave it to Joseph Conrad."
"According to Tolkien in his own diary, 'The name Inklings was transferred by C.S.L. to the undetermined, unelected circle of friends who gathered about C.S.L. in his rooms at Magdalen College.'"
"There's never been a better time to go back in the past and to read about one of the most legendary characters from one of the most legendary authors."
"To really enjoy these stories, we need to understand a little about the English language at the time these works were published."
"It's really the culmination of what I would call phase one of Dante's reception."
"With him is born our real poetry."
"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."
"He stands at the origins of Hebrew literature as well as Yiddish literature."
"The literary continuity of China is not an exaggeration."
"This age serves as a preface to the 18th century English literary history."
"Literary history makes more sense and also that there is a sense of coherence which gives an overall significance, relevance, and meaning to this entire process."
"The 19th century was quite prolific in this sense and also it laid the foundation to the novel in a way that it almost became the most important and the most dominant genre by the 20th century."
"...it's important to see what the Romantic Age was doing to the women writers of the period."
"Literature is a very important part of England's history."
"England was getting more and more open to this idea of women writing on their own."
"Cultural Literacy that the cartoons that I grew up with... contained our literary history within them."