Question

A teenage girl becomes obsessed with a trio of mysterious women living across the street in Norah Lange’s novel People in the Room, which was inspired by a portrait of this family. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this family whose members invented the fictional country of Gondal before going on to write novels like The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Wuthering Heights.
ANSWER: the Brontës [accept the Brontë sisters]
[10h] In this novel, Mr. Mybug theorizes that the Bronte sisters’ books were actually written by their brother Branwell. This comic novel chronicles Flora’s visit to her relatives in the fictional Sussex village of Howling.
ANSWER: Cold Comfort Farm (by Stella Gibbons)
[10m] This writer attempts to “reinstate [Branwell] in his original place in the Brontë family” in a biography titled for Branwell’s Infernal World. A novel by this author opens, “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
ANSWER: Daphne du Maurier (The novel is Rebecca.)
<CM, British Literature>

Back to bonuses

Summary

Data

Brandeis ABU100010
Boston College BBowdoin B001010
Tufts AHarvard1001020
MITClark Wilson1001020
Boston College ATufts B100010
YaleBowdoin C10101030
Bowdoin ABrandeis B100010
AmherstClark House1001020