This author of The (*) Vivisector and A Fringe of Leaves is better known for a novel in which Basil and Dorothea are the children of Elizabeth Hunter and another in which Edmund Bonner convinces an explorer to travel across the outback, making him aware of his love for Laura Trevelyan.  
While studying at Cambridge he published a poetry collection, The Ploughman and Other Poems, and he regretted not finishing his early novel, Nightside.  One of his novels features a hunchback named Rhoda, who is the daughter of the family that takes in the painter Hurtle Duffield, while, in another of his novels, the sinking of the Bristol Maid affects the lives of man who is obsessed with Virgil and his wife, Ellen Roxburgh.  This author of The (*) Vivisector and A Fringe of Leaves is better known for a novel in which Basil and Dorothea are the children of Elizabeth Hunter and another in which Edmund Bonner convinces an explorer to travel across the outback, making him aware of his love for Laura Trevelyan.  For 10 points, name this author of The Eye of the Storm and Voss.
While studying at Cambridge he published a poetry collection, The Ploughman and Other Poems, and he regretted not finishing his early novel, Nightside.  
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