Round 17: Tossup 10

In a novel set during this period, a doctor remembers his father giving speech therapy to a man who stutters “Boys are a mistake.” A 2014 novel set after this period recounts Frances’s arrest for throwing her shoes at a politician in this period, during which she decided not to run away with her lesbian lover out of a “sense of bravery.” The closeted bank clerk Paul tries to write a biography of a man who died during this period in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child. In a series set during this period, Billy Prior is treated (-5[1])by the real psychologist (-5[1])W. H. R. Rivers (10[1])at (10[2])Craiglockhart (10[5]-5[1])Hospital. (10[2])The Ghost (10[2])Road (-5[1])and Regeneration are Pat Barker novels (10[2])set during this period that fictionalize the author (10[1])of The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. For 10 points, in what (-5[1])period were poems like (-5[1])“Counter-Attack” (10[1])written (10[1])by (10[1])Siegfried Sassoon? ■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: World War I [or WWI; or First World War; accept Great War; prompt on 1910s; prompt on 1900s or 20th century] (The stuttering man in The Ghost Road is Lewis Carroll. The second sentence refers to The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters.)
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