Question

Men are confused by an oddly-shaped korl statue in one of these places in a short story in which the sculptor Hugh goes to prison for stealing his coworker’s money. A man who owns one of these places mistakes the protagonist’s brother Frederick for her lover after she moves to Darkshire from Helstone. One of these buildings titles a novel in which the protagonist’s suitor flees to Holland after she rejects his proposal to get married in Mudport. An owner of one of these places named (*) John Thornton (10[1])falls in love with Margaret Hale in the novel North and South. Philip Wakem buys one of these buildings near St. Ogg’s in a novel which ends with two siblings locked in an embrace as they drown in a flood on the title river. For 10 points, name this type of building formerly owned by Tom and Maggie Tulliver in a George Eliot novel titled for one of these buildings on the Floss. ■END■

ANSWER: mills [accept factories; accept iron mills or cotton mills; accept Life in the Iron Mills; accept The Mill on the Floss]
<CM, British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eve FleisigBerkeley AStanford A8710

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2023 ARCADIA at UC BerkeleyPremiereY1100%0%0%87.00
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton UniversityPremiereY3100%33%33%100.00
2023 ARCADIA at RITPremiereY1100%0%100%131.00
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTLPremiereY3100%0%33%150.67