Question

While sitting on a bench, this character thinks about the moment six years earlier when a man silently walked up behind her and proposed, but is distracted by a different man who silently walks up behind her and confesses his love. During one of the gatherings this character hosts every Thursday, she secretly gives romantic advice to a man she met as a child in Neufchatel. (-5[1])This character reneges on a promise to go to Lockleigh, an estate home to a nobleman and his two sisters. This character first meets her aunt in a “dreary” house in (*) Albany. This character fails to convince her daughter-in-law Pansy to leave a convent and come to Gardencourt, (10[1])where this woman’s cousin Ralph Touchett is dying. (-5[1])The desperate Caspar Goodwood pursues this woman since she is unhappily married to Gilbert Osmond. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Isabel Archer [accept any underlined portion; accept Mrs. Osmond until “Osmond” is said, prompt after; prompt on Osmond until “Osmond” is said, reject after]
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
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