Question
In a novella titled for one of these animals, Harald Alabaster pens an essay that uses Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H. to argue that Man turns to God for refuge from Nature. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this kind of animal that titles an A. S. Byatt novella about the naturalist William Adamson, who returns to England from the Amazon. The novella is usually published alongside Byatt’s The Conjugial Angel.
ANSWER: butterfly [or butterflies; accept Morpho Eugenia; prompt on insects or lepidopterans; prompt on Angels & Insects]
[10e] In this author’s novel The Collector, lepidopterist Frederick Clegg kidnaps the art student Miranda Grey. This author included multiple endings in his novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
ANSWER: John Fowles [or John Robert Fowles]
[10m] Peregrine Hazard is believed to have been lost in the jungle looking for butterflies in this author’s novel Wise Children. She also wrote The Magic Toyshop and Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces.
ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Pearce; or Angela Olive Stalker]
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