Some of you may have noticed that there is a LOT of literary references in this story. I wanted to make a chapter dedicated to people who were curious who my characters are named after.
David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who has served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2010.
Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman, general, and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire
Charles VIII, called the Affable, French: l'Affable, was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France, from 1483 to his death in 1498.
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.
Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty, an ancient Greek royal house
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
A Canary was once regularly used in coal mining as an early warning system. Toxic gases in the mine would kill the bird before affecting the miners.
Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer. He is considered a master of the French baroque style.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women.
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. He is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (spelled O'Keefe in the story) was an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre.
The Brothers Grimm were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing during the 19th century.
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov was a Russian composer of works for piano and for other instruments, and a pianist. His initial works had a mystical element, but he downplayed this to better fit Socialist Realism.
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian composer of German-Polish ancestry.
Lisel Mueller is an American poet. She won the U.S. National Book Award in 1981 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
David Abelevich Kaufman — also known as his pseudonym Dziga Vertov— was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.
Ivy Priaulx Rainier was a South African-British composer. Although she lived most of her life in England and died in France.
Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature.
Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
Alan Mathison Turing was a pioneering British computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist.