Eliot, John. 1592-1632. English Puritan leader. Parliamentary liberties.

Eliot, T.S. 1888-1965. US/English modernist poet, playwright. Prufrock 1910. Ash Wednesday 1930. Murder in the Cathedral 1935.

Elisha. 9C BC. Hebrew prophet. Followed Elija.

Elizabeth. 1709-62. Empress of Russia, 1741-. Eliminated German influence. Coup vs Ivan VI.

Elizabeth. 1837-98. Wife of Emperor Francis-Joseph. Assassinated by anarchist.

Elizabeth, St. Mother of John the Baptist. Sister of Virgin Mary.

Elizabeth I. 1533-1603. Queen of England, 1558-. Stable, prosperous reign of literature and art. Restored Protestantism. Supported them abroad.

Elizabeth II. 1926-. Queen of UK 1952-. Head of State of many Commonwealth countries.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1803-82. US essayist/ poet. Transcendentalist. Woodnotes 1846, Brahma 1867, English Traits 1856, Self-Reliance.

Entebbe. Uganda airport. Site of 1976 hijacking ended by Israeli commandos.

Erse. Gaelic language of Scottish Highlands.

Essex, Earl of. (Robert Devereux). 1567-1601. Favourite of Elizabeth I. Executed.

Evangelicalism. Protestant churches that follow literal biblical interpretation.

Expressionism. 1920-24. German drama style showing writers’ feelings. Author/hero.

Ezzelino III da Ramono. 1194-1259. Cruel ruler of northern Italy. Subject of Dante’s Inferno.

Faisal. 1906-75. Saudi king 1964-. Arab-Israeli War 1967. Assassinated by nephew Faisal.

Faulkner, William. 1897-1962. American novelist of US south. The Sound and the Fury 1929.

Faure, Felix. 1841-99. French president. Fashoda. Dreyfus.

Félibrige. 1854. Mistral’s Provençale revival movement.

Felix, St. -818. Spanish Adoptionist.

Fielding, Henry. 1707-54. English picaresque novelist: Tom Jones 1749; Amelia 1751.

Fitzgerald, Gerald. c1538-83. Irish. Rebelled vs Q Elizabeth 1579-83.

Flaubert, Gustave. 1821-1880. French Realist novelist. Madame Bovary 1851. Novembre 1842. Acquitted of corrupting public morals, 1857.

Forester, C.S. 1899-1966. English historical novelist. Captain Hornblower 1937-53.

Forster, E. M. 1879-1970. English humanist novelist. Room With a View 1908. Passage to India 1924.

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