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The eponymous heroine of this Regency-era novel by Charlotte’s favourite author has been portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Anya Taylor-Joy.
What is Emma?
This painting by Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular attractions of the New York City museum where Charlotte worked in the summer of 2014 and again in 2018-20.
What is Starry Night?
Charlotte’s current employer is located in this midwestern city, which is also where her mother and maternal grandmother were born.
What is Chicago?
During a 2007 trip to Edinburgh, Charlotte and her parents sampled this infamous national dish of Scotland.
What is haggis?
Growing up, Charlotte competed in this sport, which has been included in every modern Summer Olympics.
What is swimming?
During a visit to Paris during high school, Charlotte and her parents attended a memorable performance in the stained-glass-filled royal chapel Sainte-Chapelle of this famous series of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.
What is The Four Seasons?
In the summer of 2019, Charlotte visited the New Mexican home of this popular 20th-century female American artist.
Who is Georgia O’Keeffe?
Charlotte’s mother grew up in this town, which also has a Coloma family connection.
What is Scarsdale, New York?
Charlotte and Jeremy began making pasta carbonara after their honeymoon in this city where the dish was invented.
What is Rome?
This saint, depicted holding his own flayed skin in Michelangelo’s fresco of The Last Judgment, is the namesake of the church where Charlotte and Jeremy got married.
Who is St. Bartholomew?
Charlotte and Jeremy’s apartment building is mentioned in the song Today 4 U in this rock musical set in Manhattan (which happens to be one of their favourite Broadway productions).
What is RENT?
One of the most famous artworks in The Phillips Collection (where Charlotte interned in 2010-11), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party, is an example of this 19th-century French art movement.
What is Impressionism?
On several occasions during grad school, Charlotte visited this formerly divided city that was the third home of the legendary Bauhaus school of art and design.
What is Berlin?
Because her father was testing recipes for his cookbooks, Charlotte grew up eating cookies and cakes from this European country.
What is France?
This Upper East Side neighborhood, where Charlotte and Jeremy have been residents for the past ten years, used to be a German and Hungarian enclave and shares its name with a high-end district in Toronto.
What is Yorkville?
This Italian opera composer, whose oeuvre includes three adaptations of Shakespeare, was the subject of a winter study course Charlotte took in college.
Who is Giuseppe Verdi?
Charlotte wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on this Austrian painter, whose Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, now housed in the Neue Galerie New York, was the subject of a 2015 film starring Canadian icon Ryan Reynolds.
Who is Gustav Klimt?
Although Charlotte has been to many cities across North America and Europe, this mega-city is the only place she has visited on another continent.
What is São Paulo?
This specialty food item, which Charlotte’s father frequently prepares for American Thanksgiving or Christmas, has been banned in certain regions due to its controversial production method.
What is foie gras?
In college, Charlotte double-majored in art history and this left-brain subject.
What is mathematics?
Growing up, Charlotte played the same instrument as this famous American jazz musician and bandleader, whose last name is also her maternal grandmother’s maiden name.
Who is Benny Goodman?
Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert is one of the treasures of this small New York City art museum, housed in a 5th Avenue mansion, where Charlotte interned in 2009.
What is The Frick Collection?
In the summer of 2012, Charlotte and Jeremy took a comically long route to get to this hometown of the artist who is the subject of Charlotte’s doctoral dissertation.
What is Bern, Switzerland?
During a 2013 trip to Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Charlotte and her parents first encountered Rijsttafel, an elaborate multi-course meal from this Dutch colonial nation.
What is Indonesia?
Although Charlotte subsequently learned French and German, this was her first foreign language.
What is Chinese?