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10 Namby Pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. However, its origins are in Namby Pamby (1725), by Henry Carey. Carey wrote the poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his Poems on Several Occasions. Source: Wikipedia.
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11 Tucked up with a spade. One that is dead and buried according to the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Back to the Story
12 KJV Bible, Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Back to the Story
13 Drury Lane Vestal - A whore, according to the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Back to the Story
14 Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, Chapter 43. "If I was to go through the world, I could not meet with a better. But I have always observed, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the world." Back to the Story
15 A Selection of Irish Melodies, 4 (November 1811) Thomas Moore, Irish Poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer. (May 1779 – February 1852) Back to the Story
16 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 60. "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." Back to the Story
17 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4, King James Version of the Bible. Back to the Story
18 The most notorious slum of Old London was the Mint, a ten-minute stroll from London Bridge (present day Southwark)--a place of uninhabited buildings, unroofed and in ruins, many shored up by great beams propped up in the centre of the road, blackened timber houses, their upper floors leaning precariously over their foundations, or relics of once-fine mansions now falling down and surrounded by narrow courts and alleys--a place of squalor where some 3000 families lived in cramped rooms where the sewage bubbled up through the floorboards--home to the most desperate of thieves, beggars, prostitutes and outlaws. http://www.mmbennetts.com Back to the Story
19 Bit of Muslin. According to The Regency Encyclopedia, a bit of muslin referred to a woman or a girl. Back to the Story
20 Elizabeth the 1st, The Virgin Queen, November 17, 1558 – March 24, 1603
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21 Stretton Watermill is a working historic watermill located in Stretton, Cheshire, England. For the purposes of this story I have moved it to near London. Wikipedia.org Back to the Story
22 Some excerpts from Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Chapter 59. Back to the Story
23 I appropriated this name from a list of bishops in 1815 for this story. Bishop of London, Rt. Hon, William Howley. Official trustee of the British Museum. Dean of Chapel Royal, Visitor of Sion College. Provincial Dean of Canterbury. Income exceeded £15,000. From Nancy Mayer Regency Researcher, www.regencyresearcher.com/pages/bishops.html Back to the Story
24 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Chapter 58. Back to the Story
25 Almacks. From the time it opened as exclusive assembly rooms in 1765, it was governed by an elite group of Lady Patronesses who determined who was permitted entrance and who was not. Patronesses came and went over the years, but always wielded social influence that bordered on despotism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almack's Back to the Story
26 A transparent crimped silk gauze. The Regency Encyclopedia. Back to the Story
27 Constantia Wine comes from the beautiful Constantia Valley in South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. It is a golden and aromatic wine with an intense and lingering sweetness. It is considered one of the top dessert wines of the world. So little was produced that it was very expensive and purchased mainly by the aristocracy and royalty of the world. The Regency Encyclopedia. Back to the Story
28 The German Waltz was introduced in England in 1811.The earliest waltzes were not as we think of them now, but more like the dance between Maria and Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. “A waltz in Austen’s novels refers to a tune and time signature for a country dance, which might have included a landler-like figure, in which the lady danced under her partner’s raised arms.” The Regency Encyclopedia. Back to the Story
29 Almacks. An exclusive assembly room opened in 1765. The dancing was decorous and dull until the wife of the Russian Ambassador, Countess Lieven, caused a sensation by introducing the waltz and whirling round the floor with Lord “Cupid” Palmerston.” Note: Since Lieven did not become a patron until 1814 it would actually have happened after that date. I have moved the date for this story. The Regency Encyclopedia. Back to the Story
30 The Lady’s Monthly Museum, first published in 1798 by Dean and Munday in Threadneedle Street, London. A “Polite repository of Amusement and Instruction,” it was designed to “please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the Character of the British Fair.” Each issue had one, sometimes two, “elegantly coloured plates” portraying the latest fashions. Back to the Story
31 Lych-gate is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to traditional English or English-style churchyard. Wikipedia.org Back to the Story
32 Dates are fabricated to fit the story. Back to the Story
33 Michael Faraday, 1791- 1867. British chemist and physicist who contributed significantly to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (1830-1851) and frequent lecturer at the Royal Institution. Back to the Story
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Epilogue
Footnotes