Early American Authors Quiz Game Showing 351-400 of 14,459

[Allyson]

Yeah, I'm being told to go check that out.🤔 One minute...

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "Here it goes... What New England author met future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U. S. president Franklin Pierce while at Bowdion college?"

Arrrgh, I missed out on this one! I've been lost in the woods the last couple of hours...seriously! 😂 My dad and I visited Bowdoin College last winter. It was very moving for me to think that I was walking where Longfellow, Hawthorne, Franklin Pierce, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had walked! We got to see a letter that Longfellow wrote home to his sister when he had just come to Bowdoin at age 16 and an original manuscript of his poem 'The Rainy Day'.

[Ruth]

Meg wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Here it goes... What New England author met future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U. S. president Franklin Pierce while at Bowdion college?"

Arrrgh, I missed out on thi..."

One day I shall like to see it.
Here is an article about Hawthorne and Pierce,
the final days of their friendship.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/8...


How did you get lost in your woods?
You must have been lost in your thoughts-
no pun intended.
Perhaps tying color yarn or ribbon as markers,
may be a good idea. I hope there weren't any
creatures about.

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

*creatures Ruth is kindly not mentioning...* XD

[Allyson]

You should just take Emma with you, you'd never get lost! The whole time she's breaking the end off branches so we won't get lost!!😂😂 I try telling her I know where we're going!!🙄

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "You should just take Emma with you, you'd never get lost! The whole time she's breaking the end off branches so we won't get lost!!😂😂 I try telling her I know where we're going!!🙄"

Hahaha! We'd never get Emma out there! 😂 I'm so baffled how it happened. I've been walking in those woods at least a few times a week for 2 years now so I know them well! (The whole story is now published in the chat thread, btw). 😄

[Ruth]

Emma wrote: "*creatures Ruth is kindly not mentioning...* XD"

Smart girl, twig snapper!

[Ruth]

Question:
What author doubted the validity of
Shakespeare's claim as writer of his
works?

[Allyson]

This is kind of a wild guess but... Emerson?

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Yep, that's my new pen name. Twig Snapper! XD

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

No, Allyson it can't be Emerson... it has to be......
........
........
...uhhh...
.......
I'll get back to you on that

[Allyson]

?? Okay??

[Allyson]

😂😂

[Joanna]

I want to say Hawthorne again...so I will! 😁

[Ruth]

Interesting.

Hannah?
Dorothy?
Anyone else while Emma searches for
the answer?😄

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Okay! After much hard and long thinking, I have come to the conclusion that it is John Greenleaf Whittier!!

[Lily Rose]

Ralph Waldo Emerson? (I'm just guessing because I don't want to copy anyone! LOL!)

[Ruth]

Dorothy wrote: "Ralph Waldo Emerson? (I'm just guessing because I don't want to copy anyone! LOL!)"

😄

[Ruth]

Hannah wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Hannah wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Hannah wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Hannah,
Where are you?🔭👀"

Dearest Ruth, to keep out of trouble I am remaining silent! Hahaha!! Also, I don't know how to google..."

Hannah,
What is your answer?

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

I take it I was wrong?

[Joanna]

You never know with Ruth...she led us on and on last time! 😂

[Ruth]

Meg wrote: "You never know with Ruth...she led us on and on last time! 😂"

😮-Oh Really!!

[Ruth]

Yes, dear Emma.
The answer is Mark Twain.

Twain’s importance to the Shakespeare Authorship Question cannot be overstated, as he is perhaps the most prominent writer to express open doubts that William Shakspere of Stratford was the author of the works of “William Shake-Speare.” The lack of any substantial historical evidence pointing to the man from Stratford, and Twain’s own familiarity with the use of a pseudonymous pen name, had him believing the Stratford story was a myth. He subsequently penned his views on the subject in his work,
"Is Shakespeare Dead?”

[Ruth]

He also wrote Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences/Is Shakespeare Dead?

[Joanna]

Oh wow, I just realized I misread your question Ruth! I read DOUBLED validity instead of DOUBTED! 😯

[Joanna]

I've got to read that one sometime, painful as it will be to hear Cooper so criticized! 😋

[Lily Rose]

Wrong again. I wonder if I will ever be right? Lol!

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

I am absolutely HORRIBLE at this game!! XD

[Lily Rose]

Well, Emma, take consolation in the fact that I am worse at it than you!

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

I don't know about that... XD

[Ruth]

Who wrote Little Women?

[Joanna]

Longfellow?

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Lousia May Alcott?

[Doreen]

Oh well that's an easy one Ruth. Emma already got it. Of course it's Louisa May Alcott.

[Ruth]

😄- Just wanted to throw a curve ball.

[Lily Rose]

That one I can answer with great certainty. Louisa May Alcott.

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

So who does the next question now?

[Doreen]

Emma wrote: "So who does the next question now?"

I would assume that would be you Emma since you guessed it.

[Ruth]

Dazzle us Emma!

[Ruth]

It's too quiet in here,
where's Miss Spicy Pepper?

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Okay here we go! (this is probably way too easy but, that's what I thought last time... XD)

Which N.E.L author was born on December 17, 1807?

[Lily Rose]

Emma wrote: "Okay here we go! (this is probably way too easy but, that's what I thought last time... XD)

Which N.E.L author was born on December 17, 1807?"

Dates...never been my strong point.

[Doreen]

I cheated and used my phone. John Greenleaf Whittier.

[Ruth]

Doreen wrote: "I cheated and used my phone. John Greenleaf Whittier."

Doreen!
I am surprised at you.
That is something Emma does.

[Doreen]

Ruth wrote: "Doreen wrote: "I cheated and used my phone. John Greenleaf Whittier."

Doreen!
I am surprised at you.
That is something Emma does."

It's my secret shame lol

[Joanna]

Emma, you seem to have an interest in JGW? He's one of my favorite poets. 😊

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

I'll have you know Ruth, that I have never cheated!!!!

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

A little Meg. :D

[Ruth]

Emma wrote: "I'll have you know Ruth, that I have never cheated!!!!"🍃🍃🍃

My sincerest apologies, Emma.
It was Hannah that cheats.

[Doreen]

Which 2 authors were college classmates?