A pair of robberies in this town is blamed on foreigners, causing its residents to suspect that the turban-wearing Signor Brunoni is a French spy. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this town home to the gossip Miss Pole. A spinster in this town named Matty Jenkyns goes bankrupt and sells off her house to Miss Martha and the town carpenter Jem.
ANSWER: Cranford
[10e] Elizabeth Gaskell's episodic novel Cranford grew in popularity thanks to the illustrations of George, a cartoonist with this surname. His granddaughter with this surname set her novel Rebecca in her native Cornwall.
ANSWER: du Maurier [or George du Maurier; or Daphne du Maurier]
[10m] The use of George du Maurier’s illustrations to boost sales of Cranford was inspired by J.E. Millais’ illustrations for this author’s Framley Parsonage, one of six books set in a fictional, highly clerical English county.
ANSWER: Anthony Trollope (the series of novels is The Chronicles of Barsetshire.)
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