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In a letter, a woman excuses her failure to write to her sister in this city sooner by noting “how little people think of letters in such a place as” this city. Edinburgh replaces this city in Val McDermid’s entry in a series of contemporary (10[1])retellings of a certain author. In this city’s White Hart Inn, a woman reads a letter that confesses, “I am half agony, half hope.” (10[1]-5[1])After leasing (10[1])his family home of Kellynch Hall to Admiral Croft, Sir (10[1])Walter Elliot (10[1])moves to this city’s (10[1]-5[1])Camden Place. The unfinished novel The Watsons (10[1])was written in this city, where Catherine Morland meets Isabella Thorpe at the (10[1])Pump Room (-5[1])in Northanger (10[1])(“NORTH-ang-er”) Abbey. (10[1])This (10[2])city, which hosts the Jane Austen Festival, (10[1])is the home (10[1])of a woman who had five husbands (10[2])and tells a story about a knight (10[1])who (10[1])learns what women (10[2])want most. (10[2])For 10 points, name this home of a “Wife” in The Canterbury Tales. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Bath [accept Wife of Bath] (The first, third, and fourth sentences are about Persuasion.)
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