Here are the results of my Boxing day literary quiz for 2012, 50 women writers.
1. She lost her earring in the bookshop.
Tracy Chevalier and Penelope Fitzgerald
2. Sounds like Barbara took a bit of a drink while trying to unlock the riddle of monarchy.
Barbara Pym and Barbara Kingsolver
3. Both nice and good to a fault.
Iris Murdoch and Marina Endicott
4. It threw its light upon the waters.
Virginia Woolf and Sarah Waters
5. It's as if she found Richard Burton in Knutsford.
Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth Gaskell
6. Were they homesick for Newfoundland?
7. A rose for the home.
Rose Tremain and Marilynne Robinson
8. Hard times in the family but not at the Priory.
Monica Dickens and Dorothy Whipple
9. Didn't Anita make a fortune out of that hotel?
Anita Shreve and Anita Brookner
10. A Ghazzah Street in Jerusalem.
Hilary Mantel and Margaret Drabble
11. They were younger sisters (but not dotty).
Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë (and not)
12. Beloved pursuit.
Toni Morrison and Nancy Mitford
13. After Esme disappeared the marriage was over.
Maggie O'Farrell and Margaret Forster
14. As the mother said to her daughter, 'The damage they did in Troy was lasting.'
15. What was lost was a little boy.
Catherine O'Flynn and Marghanita Laski
16. Did Elizabeth really feed an olive to her tortoise?
Elizabeth Strout and Elizabeth Jenkins
17. She wrote fondly of Jane but not of Jane.
Charlotte Brontë and Jane Austen
18. No theory unless based on praxis.
19. It sounds like you might put her in a salad, but please leave out the oranges.
Lettice Cooper and Jeanette Winterson
20. It was their custom to march through the middle of the country.
Edith Wharton and George Eliot
21. No passion left, only solace.
Vita Sackville-West and Belinda McKeon
22. Were the saplings in that war on the side of the angels?
Noel Streatfeild and Betty Miller
23. A real deceiver but one of scarce resources.
24. Could that be a Rubens I saw over at the Tates (and why, by the way, were the two of them fighting)?
Bernice Rubens and Alison Lurie
25. She kept company with believers.
The winners are: David Grylls with 44 points (out of 50) and Sally Prue with 40. Honour, and book tokens, to both of them. Thanks to those who sent in an entry.
