Other Literary References
In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, before their relationship blossoms, Catherine Heathcliff (née Catherine Linton) scorns Hareton Earnshaw's primitive attempts at reading, saying, “I wish you would repeat Chevy Chase as you did yesterday; it was extremely funny!”
In Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, on hearing the conversation between Mr. Thornton and her father, Margaret Hale wonders “How in the world had they got from cog-wheels to Chevy Chase?”
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