In a novel by this author, Margaret fails to steal a plait of hair that “smelt of sulphur” before discovering it sent to her a few days later. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who depicted Margaret falling in love with the medium Selina Dawes in her novel Affinity. This author of Fingersmith depicted Nan’s relationship with the “masher” Kitty Butler in Tipping the Velvet.
ANSWER: Sarah Waters
[10m] Tipping the Velvet is a modern example of this literary genre, which depicts the episodic adventures of lower-class rogues. It is often compared to Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, a work in this genre.
ANSWER: picaresque
[10e] Moll Flanders is born in one of these places called Newgate, and is later reunited with her “Lancashire husband” there. Oscar Wilde wrote a ballad titled for one of these places in Reading (“RED-ing”).
ANSWER: prisons [or jails; or gaols; accept “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”]
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