1. Every man ... is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot (Scenes from clerical life). Apparently you could win a vast fortune in some quiz (not this one) if you knew that she was a woman.

2. ... conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses...

Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus). The Latin-speaker is Mephistopheles.

3. Them feet-folks from York and Leeds...

Bram Stoker (Dracula). Set in Whitby.

4. I am Hicky-hawky-pawky,
   The Unmitigated Blackbird.

W.S. Gilbert (Princess Toto). With music by Frederic Clay, not that I have ever heard it performed.

5. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Henry David Thoreau (Walden).

6. ... big letters along the side of the wooden fish...

Arthur Ransome (Swallows and Amazons).

7. Certainly Dr Dee was a Cambridge man...

Ronald Knox (Let Dons Delight).

8. Thor glanced down at the map on his knees...

Tom Holt (Odds and Gods)

9. Mathématiques --- Dessèchent le coeur.

Flaubert (Le dictionnaire des idées reçues). The hint was also by Flaubert (an essay on Rabelais, if I remember correctly).

10. 'What can you do? Do you know anything besides that useless trash of college learning --- Greek, Latin and so forth?'

Charlotte Bronte (The Professor). The author also published under the name of Currer Bell.

11.  Those twins of learning that he raised in you,
     Ipswich and Oxford! 

Attrib. Shakespeare (Henry VIII, Act 4 Scene 2). Well what else is Stratford-upon-Avon famous for?

12. Mein junger Sohn fragt mich: Soll ich Mathematik lernen?

Berthold Brecht (Der Sohn).

J.R.P. 27/3/00