What kind of an accident cripples Ethan Frome in Edith Wharton's novel, Ethan Frome (1911)?

Ethan Frome and his beloved, Mattie Silver, drive a sled into a tree in a botched suicide attempt in Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome.

When was the Socialist Party of America founded? The Socialist Party of America was born in 1901 under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs. Instead of emphasizing state control of the economy, it advocated worker-protection laws, many of which later came…
Whom did Maud Gonne (1866-1953) marry? Maud Gonne did not marry William Butler Yeats, the poet who made the actress famous through his poems of unrequited love. In 1903, after knowing Yeats for fourteen years, Gonne married Major John…
How many Pulitzer prizes did Ernest Hemingway win? Ernest Hemingway won one Pulitzer prize, for The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
When did the first “All in the Family” (CBS, 197179) air? The first "All in the Family" (CBS, 197179) aired on January 12, 1971, at 9:30 P.M.
Who created Roderick Hudson? Henry James created Roderick Hudson, in the 1876 novel of the same name.