Soon after this object is found on a sofa, a woman emerges from behind a curtain so that its real owner can stay hidden. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this object found in a man’s apartment that nearly reveals his affair with its married owner until Mrs. Erlynne claims to have taken it by mistake.
ANSWER: Lady Windermere’s fan [prompt on fan by asking “whose fan?”]
[10e] Lady Windermere’s fan titles a play by this witty author of The Importance of Being Earnest.
ANSWER: Oscar Wilde [or Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde]
[10h] Lady Windermere says “I have something of” this group “in me” after chiding Lord Darlington’s “silly” words. In Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance, Lord Illingworth claims to not believe “in the existence of” women in this group after learning that an American who falls in love with Gerald Arbuthnot is one of them.
ANSWER: Puritans
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