Dido

Can't you just see the reds in Dido's funeral byre?

Food, Frolic, and the Fall of Rome Roger Sutton 2006

It's impossible to place the books exactly in time (they do take place in an alternate universe, after all) but when Dido is seven or so in Black Hearts in Battersea the text implies early 19th-century.

February 28th, 2005 2005

_Adam Bede_ (1858), _Mill on the Floss_ (1860), _Silas Marner_ (1861), etc. ELISA, often written ELIZA in English, Dido, queen of Carthage.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Another word Dido often uses is "insular" -- that one describes not her music but herself.

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Brandon McDonald and Craig Biesecker in Dido and Aeneas

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Brandon McDonald and Craig Biesecker in Dido and Aeneas

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The Dido was the first square-rigged vessel that had ever entered those waters.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Elissa, a Tyrian princess, better known as Dido; it may therefore be fixed at the year of the world 3158; when Joash was king of Judah; 98 years before the building of Rome, and 846 years before Christ.

History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870

Virgil calls Dido "Sidonia" (Æn. i, v. 446), with somewhat of poetic license, for she was not born in Sidon but in

Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824

He was also the author of a masque, or dramatic entertainment, called Dido and Aeneas, which was very well received upon the stage, but which however did not excite him to produce any thing of the same kind afterwards.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753