Don’t look yet – have a try first!
Answers:
- Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)
- Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861)
- Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850)
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880)
- Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)
- Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
Not easy – how many did you get right?
The Long Victorian 
love the Oscar Wilde quote!
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Yes, it’s wonderful! 🙂 It is usually attributed to him, but I admit I couldn’t find a source for it. For that reason it nearly didn’t go in. But then, as Wilde really did say (Lady Windermere’s Fan), “I can resist everything except temptation.”
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