Question

A woman from this family opened a novel by praising Lord Byron for understanding that love is “woman’s whole existence.” The narrator finds out that the doctor she is betrothed to is her childhood friend Chotu in that novel by an author from this family, An Unfinished Song. The suicide of a woman who married into this family likely inspired a novel by her brother-in-law, The Broken Nest, which was adapted into the film (*) Charulata. In another novel from this family, an aristocrat’s wife steals money from him after she is charmed by the revolutionary leader Sandip. That novel, The Home and the World, (10[1])is by an author from this family who opened a collection of poetry with the line, “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.” For 10 points, name this family of the author of Gitanjali (gee-TAAN-juh-lee), Rabindranath (RUH-bin-druh-naath). ■END■

ANSWER: Tagore [or Thakur; prompt on Devi or Debi by asking “that’s an honorific, what’s the family name?”; prompt on Ghosal by asking, “that’s the family she married into, what family was she born into?”] (The authors are Swarnakumari Devi and Rabindranath Tagore.)
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