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This novel’s protagonist obtains a “little morsel of human affection” from the widowed Miss Marchmont, for whom she works as a companion before her death during a storm. At a museum, this novel’s protagonist compares a series of four moralizing paintings of women to a nude depicting (-5[1])Cleopatra. A reference to the “destroying angel of tempest” is often read as a hint that this novel’s love interest dies in a shipwreck. This novel opens with the arrival of Polly Home at the Bretton estate, where she becomes obsessed with (*) John Graham. A central location in this novel is haunted by the ghost of a nun who was buried alive. This novel ends as its protagonist opens a rival pensionnat (“PAWN-son-ah”) to Madame Beck’s with funds given to her by Monsieur Paul. For 10 points, name this novel about the schoolteacher Lucy Snowe, the final written by Charlotte Brontë. ■END■ (10[2])

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