The Dark Tide is set partly at Drayton College, VB
's fictionalised version of Somerville College
, before it follows Drayton's graduates out into the world. The two main characters are Daphne Lethbridge, based...
Timeline
1845: Prosper Mérimée's story Carmen appeared in...
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1845
Prosper Mérimée
's story Carmen appeared in French. It became the source for Bizet
's opera Carmen.
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Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.