god zax didnt know that
should go into the ' who they really are' books
the midget portrait painter in Nicholas Nickleby complained that she was being misrepresented in his serial so he makes her invent a computer, fly to the moon, design the EU in an ensuing one
BUT..... readers - my po faced sib who read Eng Lit at uni pointed out all these were imaginations by authors. It was not worf it to seek the possible origins because they werent real ( the bits in the books and were imagined) . So it was not useful to say "The Little maids all in a row" recalled the re establishment of the convents in 1553
Killjoy