Question

While sitting on a bench, this character thinks about the moment six years earlier when a man silently walked up behind her and proposed, but is distracted by a different man who silently walks up behind her and confesses his love. During one of (15[1])the gatherings this character hosts every Thursday, she secretly gives romantic advice to a man she met as a child in Neufchatel. (-5[1])This character reneges on a promise to go to Lockleigh, an estate home to a nobleman and his two sisters. This character first meets (15[1])her aunt in a “dreary” house in (*) Albany. This character (-5[1])fails to convince her daughter-in-law Pansy to leave a convent (10[1])and come to (-5[1])Gardencourt, (10[3]-5[1])where this woman’s cousin Ralph Touchett is dying. (10[1]-5[1])The desperate Caspar (10[1])Goodwood (10[1]-5[1])pursues this woman (10[3])since she is unhappily (10[1])married to Gilbert Osmond. For 10 points, (10[1])name this protagonist of Henry James’s novel (10[1])The Portrait of a Lady. (10[1])■END■ (10[7]0[5])

ANSWER: Isabel Archer [accept any underlined portion; accept Mrs. Osmond until “Osmond” is said, prompt after; prompt on Osmond until “Osmond” is said, reject after]
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
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