Gothic Revival architecture: Facts

Facts on topics related to Gothic Revival architecture

Jorge Isaacs' only novel, María, became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement?
Kordian, a romantic drama by one of Poland's Three Bards, Juliusz Słowacki, is a polemic with Dziady, an earlier work by another of the Three Bards, Adam Mickiewicz?
a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia?
a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
in 1833, romantic poet Panagiotis Soutsos envisioned the revival of the ancient Olympic Games, 63 years before the first International Olympics?
the Blijde Inkomst (the "Joyous Entry") of January 1356 was the basic charter of freedoms for Brabant, compared by Romantic historians to Magna Carta?

Mary Shelley's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale?
Mary Shelley's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley, refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?
Theodor von Holst was the first illustrator of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (illustration pictured)?
British novelist Mary Shelley was blackmailed by the Italian exile for whom she wrote the travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy?
in 1814, Mary Shelley (pictured) eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, later publishing her first work History of a Six Weeks' Tour, about their walking tour of Europe?
the 1820 children's story Maurice by Mary Shelley was lost until 1997?
the contributions of Mary Shelley (pictured) to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men are considered early works of feminist historiography?

Auld Lang Syne was written by Robert Burns at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries, Scotland?
the Edinburgh Advertiser was the first to print Robert Burns' poem, On the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory?
the traditional Scottish folk song Ye Jacobites by Name was re-written by Robert Burns around 1791?
the trees alongside the Falls of Bruar were planted in response to an entreaty from Robert Burns, the Scottish poet?

nineteenth-century Irish portrait painter Richard Rothwell is buried next to the Romantic poet John Keats in the Protestant cemetery in Rome?
the hazaj meter was the most popular meter for Iranian romantic epics in the 11th century?

Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Schiller, wrote a posthumously published novel and corresponded with Charlotte von Stein and Goethe?
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (pictured) was noted as a patroness of Schiller, Goethe, and Liszt?
a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe-Goethe Faust of fictional fame?
the Comoedienhaus theater, built in 1782, the first theater of performing arts in Frankfurt, Germany, played host to concerts by Mozart, Schiller and Goethe, among others?
when Caroline von Wolzogen (pictured) published her novel Agnes von Lilien anonymously in 1798, it was thought by some readers to be by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Friedrich Schiller?