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A story by this author ends with the narrator imagining hairs strung on a fiddle crying out “Mother, mother, you have murdered me!” after she strangles the title character with his own hair and releases (10[1])his caged birds. In another story by this author, a man (10[1])gives the narrator a fire opal ring that had been in his family since an ancestor received it from Catherine de’ Medici. This author wrote about a feral girl taken in by nuns in the story “Wolf-Alice.” (10[1]-5[1])In a story (10[2])by this author, a wealthy marquis gives the narrator (10[2])a choker made (10[1])of rubies, (10[1]-5[1])prefiguring his plan (10[1])to (10[1])decapitate her and place her body in a room with the corpses of his previous wives. (10[3]-5[1])“The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” and “The Company of Wolves” are among this author’s Gothic, (10[1])feminist adaptations (10[1])of fairy tales. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this author of The Bloody (10[2])Chamber. (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Pearce; or Angela Olive Stalker]
<British Literature>
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y23100%0%17%112.65

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb KendrickMaryland AWUSTL A3410
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AColumbia A4510
Grace LiuMIT ANorthwestern A82-5
Wenying WuToronto AMinnesota A8210
Tim MorrisonStanford AGeorgia Tech A8510
Rosa XiaCornell BIndiana A8510
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AJohns Hopkins A9410
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AVirginia A9410
Ned TagtmeierChicago AChicago B9710
Tracy MirkinFlorida ABrown A99-5
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley BImperial A9910
Halle FriedmanNYU AMichigan A10210
Daniel SheinbergYale ADuke A10310
Mitch McCullarIllinois AClaremont A119-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BIowa State A11910
Raymond WangCornell AOhio State A11910
Collin AceRutgers BFlorida B11910
Jim FanNorth Carolina AHarvard A13410
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AGeorgia Tech B13610
Ani PerumallaPenn State AMcGill A139-5
Matthew SiffYale BPenn A14810
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AHouston A14810
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AMIT A14910
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont AIllinois A14910
Walter ZhangBrown AFlorida A15010
Kevin FanMcGill APenn State A15010
Jisoo YooTexas AChicago C15010