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This novel’s author was inspired to write “my Aunt’s story” after hearing her recount a story of a woman who confessed to murdering her child. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this novel in which the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris was inspired by its author’s aunt. In this novel, Dinah’s cousin Hetty Sorrel mothers a child with Arthur Donnithorne.

ANSWER: Adam Bede

[10e] Adam Bede is by this author who wrote about Edward Casaubon forbidding Dorothea Brooke from remarrying after his death in Middlemarch.

ANSWER: George Eliot [or Mary Ann Evans]

[10h] Eliot defended this French author of A Winter in Majorca in a letter, writing that although “I should never dream of going to her [this author’s] writings as a moral code… it is given to her to delineate human passion and its results.”

ANSWER: George Sand [or Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin]

<Editors, British Literature>

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