HIT: literary lovers for high school

[Claire Whelihan <CWHE9645@URIACC.URI.EDU>]

Thanks to all who responded to my request for lists of "couples"
from literature, appropriate for H.S. students. Special thanks to Geri Moulton
from Beechcroft High in Columbus, Ohio for her kindness in sharing this
comprehensive list:

Emily & George  - Our Town
Tristan & Isolde
Romeo & Juliett
Porgy & Bess
Becky & Tom  - Tom Sawyer
Troilus & Cressida
Valjean & Fantine  -  Les Miserables
Roxanne & Cyrano
Esmeralda & Quasimoto
Lola & Billy   _  Seventeen, Booth Tarkington
Lara & Yuri
Shug & Albert  - Color Purple
Henry & Eliza  -  G.B.Shaw
Chanticleeer & Bertelode
Siegfried & Brunhild  _ Ring des Nibelungen
Aeneas & Dido
Jenny & Oliver  - Love Story
Darcy & Elizabeth  - Pride and Prejudice
Heathcliff & Cathy  - Wuthering Heights
Abelard & Heloise
Oberon & Titania
Frankie & Johnny
Cupid & Psyche
Pip & Estella  _ Great Expectations
Rhett & Scarlett

I plan to have a display of Literary Lovers and run a contest where
students guess titles associated with thses couples. I'll
probably have a matched list they can pick up in the library. I'm going to see
how the faculty do, too! Winner will get a large heart shaped box of
candy! If more than one person has the whole list correct, I'll take names out
of a hat.
Thanks to all and Happy Valentine's Day!!

Claire Whelihan
Barrington, RI