by Mary Malloy
Though I spend much of my time thinking about the past, I am pleased to think that this is the voice of the future.
Sources Noted in the Text
(For a more complete bibliography, see www.marymalloy.net.)
Hilaire Belloc. The Old Road (London: A. Constable, 1904).
Francis J. Child. “The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter” (Ballad No. 110), English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898).
Steve Connor. “Wife of Bath’s Hectic Sex Life Should Have Been Cut,” The Independent (27 August 1998), p. 89. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wife-of-baths-hectic-sex-life-should-have-been-cut-1174278.html
Ralph Adams Cram. The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain (New York: Churchman, 1905).
Sigmund Eisner. A Tale of Wonder: A Source Study of The Wife of Bath’s Tale (Wexford: J. English, 1957).
Robert Frost. “The Road Not Taken,” first published in Mountain Interval (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1916).
Alfred Tennyson. In Memoriam (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856).
Alfred Wainwright. A Pennine Journey: A Story of a Long Walk in 1938 (London: Joseph, 1986).
Acknowledgements
In England, the Gould family (Joan, Ron, Elizabeth and Annah) provided me with a place to stay and four sounding boards for ideas when I made the original pilgrimage; the street on which they lived in Chelsea gave me the title of this book. Peg Brandon walked with me and inspired the character of Kate Wentworth; Erik Zettler won the opportunity to name a character in a fundraiser and offered up his brother Dante (who gets my thanks and apologies); Kit Ward first suggested that I might build a novel on the framework of the walk; Deborah Harrison and Liz Maloney were perceptive readers of the manuscript ten years apart.
While this book started with a walk, the writing of it was completed on a “Sea Semester” sailing cruise from Tahiti to Hawaii. Thanks to my comrades Steve Tarrant and Jan Witting for their patience and their willingness to give me expert advice on navigation and optics.
I am, as always, grateful to have a family of such intelligent readers. Thanks to my husband, Stuart Frank, and to Mom, Kathy, Sheila, Pat, Tom, Peggy, Jen, Julie, John, Laura and Sally for your support and comments.
The Author
Mary Malloy is the author of The Wandering Heart, the first Lizzie Manning Mystery, and four maritime history books, including the award-winning Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: The Notorious Career of Samuel Hill of Boston. She has a Ph.D. from Brown University and teaches Maritime History at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Mass., and Museum Studies at Harvard University.
About the Type
This book was set in Plantin, a family of text typefaces inspired by the work of Christophe Plantin (1520-1589.) In 1913, Frank Hinman Pierpont of the English Monotype Corporation directed the Plantin revival. Based on 16th century specimens from the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, specifically a type cut by Robert Granjon and a separate cursive Italic, the Plantin typeface was conceived. Plantin was drawn for use in mechanical typesetting on the international publishing markets.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Malloy, Mary, 1955-
eISBN : 978-1-935-24824-8
1. Women historians--Fiction. I. Title. PS3613.A455P’.6--dc23
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