Rosanna Spearman performs this action after incriminating herself in The Moonstone.
In The Time Machine, the time traveler first finds Weena undergoing this process. In a poem by Stevie Smith, the speaker declares that she is "not waving but" performing this title action. This action occurs to Maggie Tulliver in the (*) Mill on the Floss. Rosanna Spearman performs this action after incriminating herself in The Moonstone. In the last line of "The Mermaid" by William Butler Yeats, the speaker declares that even lovers perform this action.  For 10 points name this action which is the cause of death of Ophelia in Hamlet.
In The Time Machine, the time traveler first finds Weena undergoing this process.
drowning [accept obvious equivalents, prompt on “dying” and stuff like that]