What book about the Holy Grail quest did T. S. Eliot draw upon in his poem, The Waste Land (1922)?

Jessie L. Weston’s From Ritual to Romance (1920) was the book about the Holy Grail quest that T. S. Eliot drew upon in his poem, The Waste Land.

Where did the English title for Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) come from? C. K. Scott Moncrieff took the title Remembrance of Things Past for his 1922 English translation of Proust from Shakespeare's Sonnet 30: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought/I summon up remembrance…
What does the name Attila, as in Attila the Hun, mean? Attila is the name for the man described by sixth-century historian Jordanes as "short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head". It means "Little Father." Attila was born circa 406…
Who divorced English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) on grounds of impotence? Euphemia Chalmers ("Effie") Gray divorced English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) on grounds of impotence. Gray obtained an annulment in 1854 after seven years of an unconsummated marriage. She went on to marry…
What is the name of Miss Havisham’s house in Dickens’s Great Expectations (1860-61)? The name of Miss Havisham's house in Dickens's Great Expectations is Satis House.
What was George Sand’s real name? The French author of Consuelo (1842), George Sand was born Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin.
What detective did Edgar Allan Poe invent? Edgar Allan Poe invented detective C. Auguste Dupin, the coolly logical amateur sleuth of three stories published in the 1840s: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The…