G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Chesterton was born in Kensington to a middle-class family. His father owned a real-estate business, and the family had more Unitarian and liberal leanings than Anglican. While he did not have the kind of religious training

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by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874–1936)

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When fishes flew and forests walked

And figs grew upon thorn

Some moment when the moon was blood

Then surely I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening cry

And ears like errant wings

The devil's walking parody

On all four-footed things.

The tattered outlaw of the earth

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Question:

Who earned the following praise from Virginia Woolf: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon [her grave] . . . For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds"?

Answer

Aphra Behn.

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