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This author’s lover wrote “You made me cry with your passages about Knole, you wretch” in a letter about a mansion in a novel by this author with 365 rooms and 52 staircases. A character created by this author, who is gifted an (10[1])emerald frog (10[1])by Archduke Harry, shouts “It’s the goose!” at the end (10[1])of a novel. (10[1])A character has a kiss that she calls the “most exquisite (10[1])moment of her whole life” in a novel by this author that was (10[1])adapted into the novel The Hours. (10[1])That character created by this (10[1])author, who (10[1])originally (10[1])appeared in The Voyage (10[1])Out, buys flowers herself on Bond Street. This author was inspired to write (10[1])a novel spanning over 300 years about (10[1])a gender-shifting character after her (10[1])affair (10[1])with Vita Sackville-West. For 10 points, name this author of Orlando (10[1])and Mrs. Dalloway. ■END■

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf
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