Alfred Salteena introduces Ethel Monticue to his friend Bernard Clark, whom she eventually marries, in a novel mostly read because its author had this trait. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this trait possessed by Daisy Ashford when she wrote a novel titled for visitors with this trait. Works written by authors with this trait are classified as juvenilia.
ANSWER: youth [or being young; accept being a child or childhood; accept The Young Visitors; prompt on juvenile; reject “teenaged”]
[10m] A ten-year-old diarist named Emily with this last name described her father, the Bishop of Worcester (“WOOS-tur”). Another diarist with this last name used tachygraphy (“ta-KIG-ruh-fee”) to record burying wine and cheese in a work halted by his fading eyesight.
ANSWER: Pepys [accept Samuel Pepys (“peeps”) or Emily Pepys (“PEHP-ihss”)]
[10h] A novel titled for a “Beautifull” person of this name was written by a twelve-year-old author. A real-life person with this first name drew watercolors for a satirical history of England written by her then-teenage sister.
ANSWER: Cassandra [accept Cassandra Austen or The Beautifull Cassandra]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, British Literature>