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In this novel, a lacemaker burns his wood carving of the Creation after his wife angers him by suggesting a cathedral sculptor added a woman’s face to a male saint. In this novel, a Polish grandmother realizes her husband drowned when she discovers his riding whip in the flood water. In this novel, a teacher is horrified to learn that she had caned a troublemaking child with a heart condition. After her lover Anton leaves for the Boer War, a girl in this novel engages in a sapphic romance with the schoolteacher Winnifred, who later marries the girl’s coal baron uncle. This novel follows three generations of a Nottingham family from the patriarch Tom to Ursula Brangwen, who also (10[1])appears in its sequel (-5[1])Women in Love. (10[1])For 10 points, name this D. H. Lawrence novel titled for a multicolored symbol. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: The Rainbow
<TH, British Literature>
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TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
Great Lakes2025-02-01667%33%140.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-011100%100%140.00
Midwest2025-02-015100%20%132.60
Northeast2025-02-01367%100%139.50