In a novel by this author, a woman gives a lock of her hair as a love token to Mr. Willoughby, but she later becomes brokenhearted when he returns it to her in a letter. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote about the love lives of Marianne and Eleanor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility.
ANSWER: Jane Austen
[10m] After Hetty Sorrel’s locket is broken during a dance, a lock of Arthur Donnithorne’s hair falls out, revealing their relationship, in this author’s novel Adam Bede.
ANSWER: George Eliot [or Mary Ann Evans]
[10h] In this novel, a lock of hair found in the grave of a Victorian poet actually belongs to his daughter and not his lover Christabel LaMotte, which the characters unearthing his grave thought was a love token.
ANSWER: Possession (by A.S. Byatt)
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