Question
This good titles a 1996 novel by Alessandro Baricco, in which smuggler Hervé Joncour becomes smitten with an Edo-period concubine. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this good also peddled by the father of Sir Thomas Browne. They’re not ashes, but a 1995 travelog with long asides about the production of this good contemplates why Browne said this good was found in the Urn of Patroclus.
ANSWER: silk [accept silkworms; accept Bombyx mori; accept silk moths; accept Seta]
[10m] In this German author’s semi-fictional travelog The Rings of Saturn, the narrator discusses the cultivation of silkworms while walking down the English coastline. This author also included photographs in his novel Austerlitz.
ANSWER: W. G. Sebald [or Winfried Georg Sebald]
[10e] The end of The Rings of Saturn dotes on the black silk robes worn by wealthy ladies at this woman’s funeral. This royal showed a dying Charles Dickens her journals of visiting the Scottish Highlands with her husband Albert.
ANSWER: Queen Victoria [or Alexandrina Victoria]
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