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Quick Quiz Q Who wrote under the pe name of Christopher Crowfield
A trivia item notes that Christopher Crowfield was a pen name used by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It recalls Stevenson’s Samoa death in 1895 and burial on Mount Vaea plus Socrates’s death by hemlock for impiety and youth corruption in 399 B C. It also mentions the first regular trans Atlantic service in 1838 with ships from England to New York.
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Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mount Vaea
Socrates
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