Question

In a novel by this author, a servant frets about the perpetually undercooked salmon as gentlemen in the dining room drink a wine called Imperial Tokay. A book by this author contrasts a lunch with sole in cream sauce and a dinner with “plain gravy soup” before concluding that “one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” (15[3])A novel by this author (15[1])features a dinner party for a man who dies shortly thereafter in a riding accident in (*) India. In a novel by this author, a dinner (10[1])centered (10[1])on the (10[1])dish Boeuf en Daube (10[5])(“buhf on dobe”) concludes the opening section, “The Window.” (10[1])A crowd sees a plane spelling out the word “toffee” (10[2]-5[1])at the start of a novel (10[2])by this author, (-5[1])which opens by noting that its protagonist “said she would buy the flowers herself” (10[2])for a dinner (10[1])party (10[1])attended by Peter Walsh. For 10 points, name this author of The Waves and Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Woolf; or Adeline Virginia Stephen] (The second sentence refers to A Room of One’s Own.)
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