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While dying of breast cancer, an author with this surname wrote about her affair with Katharine Peabody Loring. That author with this surname may have inspired a character created by her brother who delivers a feminist lecture and moves in with Olive Chancellor, the (20[1])cousin (20[1])of a (20[1])Confederate veteran. An author (20[1])with this surname created a character who leaves Gardencourt to visit (*) Florence with Mrs. Touchett. (10[1])That author with this (10[1])surname (10[1])created a woman who defiantly (10[1])meets with Giovanelli (10[1])before dying of Roman fever (10[3])in the (10[3])Colosseum. (10[9])An author (10[1])with this surname wrote The Bostonians, as well as a novel (10[1])in which Caspar Goodwood’s proposal is turned down by Isabel Archer. For 10 points, give the surname of the author of The Portrait of a Lady. ■END■ (10[3])

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