Round 12: Tossup 14

This character lets herself be sustained by the “admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence” while listening to her husband talk about the square root of 1253. While walking with this character, a student feels extraordinary (10[1])pride “for the first time in his life” in a passage that ends “He had hold of her bag.” (-5[1])This character often frets (-5[1])about the cost of fixing the greenhouse roof and knits a stocking for Sorley’s (-5[1])tubercular son. In a novel’s opening, this character acquiesces to her six-year-old son’s (-5[1])request as he sits on the floor cutting pictures from a catalogue. (10[1]-5[2])This character hosts a party featuring the dish bœuf en daube (10[2])(“buhf on dobe”) near the end (-5[1])of “The Window,” (10[1])after which her death (10[1])and that of her daughter (10[1])Prue are brushed over (-5[1])in the section (10[1])“Time Passes.” (10[1]-5[3])For 10 points, name this mother (-5[1])of the central family (0[1])in To the Lighthouse. (10[2])■END■ (10[2]0[8])

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