In a letter, a woman excuses her failure to write to her sister in this city sooner by noting “how little people think of letters in such a place as” this city. Edinburgh replaces this city in Val McDermid’s entry in a series of contemporary retellings of a certain author. In this city’s White Hart Inn, a woman reads a letter that confesses, “I am half agony, half hope.” After leasing his family home of Kellynch Hall to Admiral Croft, Sir Walter Elliot moves to this city’s Camden Place. The unfinished novel The Watsons was written in this city, where Catherine Morland meets Isabella Thorpe at the Pump Room in Northanger (“NORTH-ang-er”) Abbey. This city, which hosts the Jane Austen Festival, is the home of a woman who had five husbands and tells a story about a knight who learns what women want most. For 10 points, name this home of a “Wife” in The Canterbury Tales. ■END■
ANSWER: Bath [accept Wife of Bath] (The first, third, and fourth sentences are about Persuasion.)
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