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Which Wizard School Does Harry Potter Attend?
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Who Wrote The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer?
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Fill In The Blank: Charlotte's Web Was Written By E.B. ___
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Which Beloved Character Lived In A Hobbit Hole In The Shire?
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Which Little Women Character Was Known For Her Gentle, Shy Nature?
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Who Is The Orphan Boy Raised By A Blacksmith Named Joe Gargery?
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Which Fairy Tale Princess Slept Until Kissed By A Prince?
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Which Classic Novel Features The Orphan Girl Anne Shirley?
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Who Is The Secret Benefactor Who Funds Pip's Gentleman's Education In Great Expectations?
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Which Fairy Tale Features A Girl Who Visits Three Bears?
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Who Is The Cunning Fox Who Tempts Pinocchio Away From School?
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Which Classic Character Carved A Name For Himself On Every Tree In The Forest?
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Who Is The Warm-Hearted Schoolteacher In Little House On The Prairie?
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Which Storybook Boy Never Wanted To Grow Up?
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Who Is The Gentle, Wise Mentor Who Guides Young King Arthur?
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Which Storybook Girl Had A Little Lamb That Followed Her?
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Who Is The Brave Young Hero Of Treasure Island?
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Which Classic Character Was Known For His Very Long Nose?
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Which Storybook Elephant Had Enormous, Magical Ears?
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Who Is The Lovable, Accident-Prone Bear From Darkest Peru?
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Which Storybook Girl Lived In A Boxcar With Her Siblings?
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Who Is The Kindhearted Pig Who Wins A County Fair Prize?
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Which Beloved Rabbit Wore A Blue Jacket And Snuck Into Mr. McGregor's Garden?
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Who Is The Mysterious Woman Who Always Wore Her Wedding Dress?
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Which Classic Character Traveled The World In Eighty Days?
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Which Storybook Boy Was Raised By Wolves In The Jungle?
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Who Is The Warm, Motherly Aunt Who Raises Tom Sawyer?
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Ilvermorny
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Beauxbatons
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Hogwarts
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Durmstrang
J.K. Rowling named Hogwarts after a plant she spotted in Kew Gardens, London.
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Ariel
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Pearl
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Coral
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Marina
Disney's 1989 film named her Ariel, though Andersen's 1837 original never gave her a name.
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Manderley
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Tara
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Twelve Oaks
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Thornfield Hall
Margaret Mitchell named Tara after the ancient Irish hill of the High Kings, honoring her Irish heritage.
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Philip Marlowe
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Hercule Poirot
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Sherlock Holmes
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Sam Spade
221B Baker Street is so famous that a real museum stands there today, drawing thousands of visitors yearly.
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Jack London
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Mark Twain
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Bret Harte
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Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain based Tom Sawyer on three real boys he knew as a child in Hannibal, Missouri.
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The Grapes Of Wrath
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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Of Mice And Men
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East Of Eden
Harper Lee based Atticus Finch on her own father, a real Alabama lawyer who defended Black clients in the 1930s.
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Moby Dick
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Old Albino
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The Grey Ghost
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Leviathan
Herman Melville was inspired by a real albino sperm whale called Mocha Dick that terrorized whalers in the 1800s.
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Gray
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White
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Stone
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Brown
E.B. White wrote Charlotte's Web in 1952 after watching a spider spin an egg sac in his barn in Maine.
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Bob Cratchit
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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Tiny Tim
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Jacob Marley
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks in 1843 and it helped revive many modern Christmas traditions.
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Rapunzel
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Sleeping Beauty
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Snow White
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Cinderella
Charles Perrault's 1697 version introduced the glass slippers — earlier versions gave Cinderella golden ones.
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Rin Tin Tin
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Benji
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Toto
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Lassie
L. Frank Baum named Toto in 1900, and the little Cairn Terrier became one of literature's most beloved animal companions.
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Maestro
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Geppetto
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Figaro
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Stromboli
Carlo Collodi created Geppetto in 1883, and the lonely woodcarver's wish for a son gave the story its tender heart.
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Wendy
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Dorothy
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Pollyanna
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Alice
Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, inspired by a real girl named Alice Liddell.
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Tom Sawyer
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Sid Sawyer
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Becky Thatcher
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Jim
Mark Twain based Tom Sawyer partly on himself, saying the character was a combination of three boys he knew as a child.
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Winnie-The-Pooh
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Paddington Bear
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Rupert Bear
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Baloo
A.A. Milne named Pooh after his son Christopher Robin's real stuffed bear, purchased at Harrods in London in 1921.
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The Wicked Witch Of The West
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Glinda
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Mombi
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The Wicked Witch Of The East
L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel never described the Wicked Witch as green — that iconic look came from the 1939 film.
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Monday
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Sunday
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Saturday
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Friday
Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719, and Crusoe named his companion after the day of the week they first met.
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Jo March
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Amy March
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Meg March
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Beth March
Louisa May Alcott based Jo March largely on herself, and Jo's dream of becoming a published author mirrored Alcott's own real-life journey.
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Long John Silver
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Captain Ahab
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Captain Hook
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Captain Nemo
Jules Verne created Captain Nemo in 1870, and the mysterious name was chosen deliberately — Nemo means 'no one' in Latin.
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Penelope
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Charlotte
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Beatrice
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Harriet
Charlotte A. Cavatica is her full name in E.B. White's 1952 classic, and she spins words like 'Terrific' to save Wilbur the pig.
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Tom Sawyer
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Rip Van Winkle
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Ichabod Crane
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Natty Bumppo
Washington Irving created Ichabod Crane in 1820, and the story is set in Sleepy Hollow, New York — a real village on the Hudson River.
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Ichabod Crane
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Rip Van Winkle
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Robin Hood
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Paul Bunyan
Washington Irving's 1819 story was set in New York's Catskill Mountains, and Rip woke up to find America had become an independent country.
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Curley's Wife
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Candy Swamper
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Slim Jerkline
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Lennie Small
John Steinbeck published Of Mice And Men in 1937, and Lennie's dream of tending rabbits on a farm remains one of literature's most heartbreaking hopes.
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Gandalf The Grey
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Bilbo Baggins
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Samwise Gamgee
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Frodo Baggins
J.R.R. Tolkien introduced Bilbo in The Hobbit in 1937, and his cozy home Bag End was inspired by the English countryside Tolkien loved.
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Victor Frankenstein
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The Phantom
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Count Dracula
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Dorian Gray
Bram Stoker created Dracula in 1897, partly inspired by a real 15th-century Romanian prince named Vlad the Impaler.
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Meg March
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Marmee March
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Amy March
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Beth March
Louisa May Alcott based Beth on her own sister Lizzie, who also died young, giving the character a deeply personal and tender sadness.
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Pip
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Nicholas Nickleby
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David Copperfield
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens published Great Expectations in 1861, and Pip's real name is Philip Pirrip — a mouthful he shortened as a small child.
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Rapunzel
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Snow White
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Sleeping Beauty
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Beauty
Charles Perrault wrote the earliest popular version in 1697, and in the original French tale the princess sleeps for a full one hundred years.
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Calypso
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Circe
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Helen
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Penelope
In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope cleverly tricked her suitors for years by unraveling at night the funeral shroud she wove each day.
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Pollyanna
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Anne Of Green Gables
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Little Women
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The Secret Garden
Lucy Maud Montgomery published Anne Of Green Gables in 1908, and Anne became one of literature's most beloved redheads.
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Mr. Jaggers
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Mr. Wemmick
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Abel Magwitch
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Herbert Pocket
Dickens revealed Magwitch, a grateful escaped convict, as Pip's secret benefactor in one of literature's most surprising plot twists.
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Snow White
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Little Red Riding Hood
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Goldilocks
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Rapunzel
The story of Goldilocks dates back to 1837 when British author Robert Southey first published it as 'The Story of the Three Bears.'
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Honest John
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Lampwick
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The Blue Fairy
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Stromboli
In Collodi's original 1883 novel, the sly Fox and his companion the Cat trick Pinocchio into burying his gold coins in the Field of Miracles.
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Wendy Darling
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Alice Liddell
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Glinda
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Dorothy Gale
L. Frank Baum gave Dorothy the last name Gale in his 1900 novel, though most readers never knew it from the famous 1939 film.
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The Lone Ranger
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Zorro
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Robin Hood
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D'Artagnan
Zorro, created by Johnston McCulley in 1919, carved his signature Z with a sword as a bold calling card left for his enemies.
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Miss Watson
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Miss Minchin
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Miss Beadle
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Miss Havisham
Laura Ingalls Wilder based Miss Beadle on her real-life teacher in De Smet, South Dakota, whom she remembered fondly her whole life.
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Christopher Robin
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Tom Sawyer
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Pippi Longstocking
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Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie created Peter Pan in 1904 and named Neverland as his home, a place where children stay young forever.
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Merlin
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Dumbledore
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Prospero
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Gandalf
Merlin first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's writings around 1136, making him one of literature's oldest and most enduring wizard figures.
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Heidi
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Pollyanna
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Mary
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Gretel
Mary Had A Little Lamb was published in 1830 and is believed to be based on a real girl named Mary Sawyer from Massachusetts.
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Oliver Twist
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Tom Sawyer
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David Copperfield
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Jim Hawkins
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island in 1883, reportedly inspired by a map he drew with his stepson to keep him entertained.
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The Tin Man
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Captain Hook
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Pinocchio
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Rumpelstiltskin
Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio first appeared in an Italian newspaper in 1881, years before Disney turned him into the beloved 1940 film.
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Becky Sharp
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Estella
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Meg March
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Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens modeled the cold, heartbroken Miss Havisham partly on a real jilted woman he read about in a newspaper in the 1850s.
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Snow White
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Gretel
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Little Red Riding Hood
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Thumbelina
The red hood was actually added by Charles Perrault in his 1697 French version — earlier tellings of the story had no hood at all.
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Lady Tremaine
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Cruella De Vil
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Ursula
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The Evil Queen
Dodie Smith created Cruella De Vil in her 1956 novel The Hundred And One Dalmatians, and the character's name is a pun on 'cruel devil.'
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The Great Gatsby
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An American Tragedy
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East Of Eden
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The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald based Jay Gatsby partly on a real Long Island bootlegger he knew, and the novel sold only modestly when published in 1925.
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Friar Tuck
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Watson
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Sancho Panza
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Sam Gamgee
Miguel de Cervantes published Don Quixote in 1605, and it is widely considered the world's first modern novel.
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Rapunzel
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The Little Mermaid
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Thumbelina
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The Snow Queen
In Hans Christian Andersen's original 1837 story, the Little Mermaid does not get a happy ending — she dissolves into sea foam.
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Anne Shirley
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Heidi
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Pollyanna
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Rebecca
Eleanor Porter published Pollyanna in 1913 and the character became so famous that 'playing the Pollyanna game' entered everyday American speech.
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Horton
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Elmer
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Babar
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Dumbo
Dumbo debuted in a 1939 children's book by Helen Aberson before becoming Disney's beloved 1941 animated film.
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Jane Eyre
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Becky Sharp
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Marian Halcombe
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Agnes Grey
Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre in 1847 under the pen name Currer Bell, shocking readers with its bold, independent heroine.
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Pollyanna
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Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
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Heidi
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Pippi Longstocking
Johanna Spyri wrote Heidi in 1881, and the Swiss Alps setting became so iconic that the region still draws tourists looking for Heidi's mountain today.
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The Mouse And The Motorcycle
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Abel's Island
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The Tale Of Despereaux
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Stuart Little
E.B. White published Stuart Little in 1945 and the tiny mouse hero became one of children's literature's most beloved characters.
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Long John Silver
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Captain Ahab
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Captain Hook
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Captain Flint
Herman Melville based Captain Ahab partly on a real captain, George Pollard Jr., whose ship was rammed by a sperm whale in 1820.
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Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
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Pippi Longstocking
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Heidi
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Pollyanna
Astrid Lindgren created Pippi in 1945 after telling stories to her daughter Karin who was home sick from school.
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Paddington Bear
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Winnie-The-Pooh
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Rupert Bear
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Baloo
Michael Bond created Paddington in 1958 after spotting a lonely toy bear on a shelf at Paddington Station on Christmas Eve.
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Anne Shirley
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Jessie Alden
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Pollyanna Whittier
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Laura Ingalls
Gertrude Chandler Warner created the Boxcar Children in 1924, inspired by a real boxcar she spotted near her school.
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Wilbur
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Napoleon
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Babe
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Porky
E.B. White based Wilbur on a real pig he raised on his Maine farm, worried it would be slaughtered.
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Rabbit From Pooh
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Velveteen Rabbit
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Br'er Rabbit
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Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter first drew Peter Rabbit in a letter to a sick child in 1893, years before he became a published book character.
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Becky Sharp
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Lady Dedlock
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Miss Havisham
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Madame Defarge
Dickens based Miss Havisham partly on a real jilted Australian woman named Eliza Emily Donnithorne who reportedly did the same thing.
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Robinson Crusoe
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Phileas Fogg
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Gulliver
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Captain Nemo
Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days in 1872, inspired by a newspaper advertisement claiming the journey was now possible.
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Blind Pew
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Black Dog
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Long John Silver
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Captain Hook
Robert Louis Stevenson based Long John Silver on his real friend W.E. Henley, a poet who had lost a leg to tuberculosis.
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Rumpelstiltskin
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The Imp Of Bremen
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Rumplefinger
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Tom Thumb
The Brothers Grimm published Rumpelstiltskin in 1812, and the name may come from an old German word for a mischievous household spirit.
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Dumbo
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Elmer
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Babar
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Horton
Dr. Seuss created Horton in 1940 with the famous motto 'a person's a person no matter how small,' which became a beloved phrase for generations.
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Alice In Wonderland
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The Wizard Of Oz
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Treasure Island
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Peter Pan
L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, and the beloved trio first appeared together in that original novel.
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Jane Eyre
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Emma Woodhouse
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Catherine Morland
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Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Austen based Elizabeth Bennet partly on herself, calling her 'as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.'
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Mowgli
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Tarzan
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Peter Pan
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Jim Hawkins
Rudyard Kipling created Mowgli in 1894, and the name is believed to mean 'frog' in an Indian dialect.
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Aunt Em
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Aunt Polly
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Aunt March
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Aunt Betsey
Mark Twain modeled Aunt Polly on his own mother, Jane Clemens, capturing her blend of sternness and deep affection perfectly.
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