We Shadows

Who are these People (part 6)

{not the end of the book, but you've caught up to the most recent update!}

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. This list has been added to (and subtracted from) book to book. 

Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors.

Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art.

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War.

Canada's first prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier is often considered one of the country's greatest statesmen.

Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.