No to:
Real
Male
Yes to:
Alive
Yes to:
Created for a book
If I'm right about this guess (which occurred to me right after I posted my last question), I admire the way you avoided scrupulosity in giving your answer:
Liza Doolittle
But, I didn't avoid scrupulosity this time. (lol)
It's Not:
Liza Doolittle
Hmm ... back to the drawing board.
Was the book written:
by an American?
before 1900?
No to:
written by an American
Yes to:
written before 1900
and, dang it anyway, I cannot avoid scrupulosity, because it is written that some of the charactors are based on actual historical personages, although I'm not certain that the character in question here is one of them.
All I can think of is Lucia di Lammermoor, but I'm pretty sure that, in the book by Sir Walter Scott, Lucy had a Scottish last name that wasn't "di Lammermoor". So:
Was the author of the book from the UK?
Not Lucia (I was considering using her)
Author of the book was from the UK
A desperation guess:
Little Dorrit
Still no idea, so I'll ask three more questions to get a hint (I think that will bring the total up to 10):
Was the book:
ever turned into a movie?
written by a woman?
written before 1850?
The book has been filmed at least two times, if not more.
It was not written by a woman
It was not written before 1850.
Clue: This lovely heroine was a real cookie.
BINGO. Lorna Doone it is.
Before I leave, is the book you received as a prize in school, The Reader's Encylopedia of American Literature?
Good one!
Yes, that's the book -- compiled by someone named Max J. Herzberg.
I'm logging off for the evening soon, too, so I'll throw the next round open to anyone who wants to start it.
That's the same book I have, but it only goes up to 1969. I'm going to check to see if it has ever been updated.
Next round open.
Are you still there, Kev?
