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. 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 (-5[1])fails to convince her daughter-in-law Pansy to leave a convent and come to Gardencourt, (10[1]-5[1])where this woman’s cousin Ralph Touchett is dying. The desperate Caspar Goodwood (-5[1])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. ■END■ (10[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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tim MorrisonStanford+number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku99-5
Eve FleisigBerkeleyA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs11310
Neil GurramA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsBerkeley113-5
John XiangWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Cry of the Common Loon125-5
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common LoonWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?15210
Ryan Sunnumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haikuStanford+15210

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%100%139.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%0%0%134.00
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y367%33%0%107.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y580%0%20%125.50
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%33%0%97.33
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y683%0%33%144.00
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%0%139.67