This author wrote about “Jeanie in her grave, / Who should have been a bride” but who instead “fell sick and died.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poet who wrote a poem about the sisters Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted by the title creatures calling “come buy, come buy.”
ANSWER: Christina Rossetti [or Christina Georgina Rossetti; prompt on Rossetti; reject “Dante Gabriel Rossetti”] (The poem is “Goblin Market.”)
[10e] Rossetti originally titled her poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” for this holiday. In a novel titled for this holiday, Ebenezer Scrooge becomes a father figure to Tiny Tim after being visited by three ghosts.
ANSWER: Christmas [accept A Christmas Carol; reject “Christmas Eve”] (“In the Bleak Midwinter” was published as “A Christmas Carol.” The novel is by Charles Dickens.)
[10h] Elsie reads “Goblin Market” to cheer the narrator up in a novel by this author. This author wrote about a character who has a lesbian affair with Miss Jewsbury in Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
ANSWER: Jeanette Winterson
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