Literary help

[Maninblack]

Which literary character was betrayed by her liking for apricots?

Whose dinner consisted of two leguminous seeds as he feared getting fat?

Which writer wrote of his brother's style as being salad-like?

[loonapick]

The Duchess of Malfi - apricot question

[oarsman]

Did you ever find out the answers to the other two questions you asked? if so could you tell me what they were please.

[Munden]

I did.

I presume this is for the GBQ.

They are: The Person of Dean  (Edward Lear)

and The Durrells (lawrence and Gerald)