Answer the following about E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand, a best-selling 19th-century novel about Capitola Black, an orphan who is adopted by the rich benefactor Ira Warfield, for 10 points each.
[10m] The “hidden hand” is one of these features, which allows Capitola to inherit her father’s fortune. In a short story, Aylmer kills his wife when he attempts to remove this titular feature, which also takes the shape of a “crimson hand.”
ANSWER: birthmark [accept “The Birth-Mark”; accept freckle or mole]
[10h] Black Donald, a notorious bandit in The Hidden Hand, disguises himself as a member of this profession to sneak into Warfield’s house. R. J. Bowman has a heart attack in a short story titled for this profession.
ANSWER: traveling salesman [accept “Death of a Traveling Salesman”; accept peddler; prompt on smuggler; prompt on sailor by asking “what profession is Black Donald performing while dressed as a sailor?”]
[10e] Many of Southworth’s novels, including The Hidden Hand, were first serialized in The National Era, which also published this author’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
ANSWER: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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