Question
Note to moderator: Please read the answerline for the first part carefully.Right after this book’s publication, its author fled to Rome with their daughters Marianne and Meta, and proceeded to perhaps fall in love with Charles Eliot Norton. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name or describe this book, whose author blithely noted that they had “three people [whom they wanted] to libel” in it. This book blames Lydia Robinson for the death of its subject’s brother Branwell.
ANSWER: The Life of Charlotte Brontë [accept Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë or equivalent descriptions; prompt on answers that describe a biography of Charlotte Brontë without naming its author by asking “By whom?”; prompt on answers that describe an Elizabeth Gaskell biography of a Brontë sister but that do not indicate which one by asking “which Brontë?”; prompt on answers that describe an Elizabeth Gaskell book on Charlotte Brontë, but that do not indicate what genre of book]
[10h] While in Rome, Gaskell stayed at the house of this sculptor, the inspiration for Kenyon in Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun. Henry James wrote a biography titled [this sculptor] And His Friends.
ANSWER: William Wetmore Story [accept William Wetmore Story and His Friends] (Story’s sculpture Cleopatra is attributed to Kenyon in The Marble Faun.)
[10e] Nell Stevens’s fictionalization of Gaskell’s time in Rome includes a chapter describing Harriet Hosmer’s casting of the Clasped Hands of these two people. One of these two people was the addressee of the other’s line, “Yes, call me by my pet-name!”
ANSWER: Robert Browning AND Elizabeth Barrett Browning [accept the Brownings; accept Elizabeth Barrett in place of “Elizabeth Barrett Browning”] (Nell Stevens wrote Mrs. Gaskell and Me.)
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | BHSU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | I would prefer not to | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| In Search of Things Past | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Canadians | Quasicrystal Silence | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |