Two-Way Mirror by Fiona Sampson (jenna bush book club txt) 📗

‘I cannot dwell…’ #462. Julia Martin’s father was Revd John Vignoles of Portarlington, County Laois. James was third son of the Martins banking family of Overbury Court, a little over twenty miles away. They married on 20 Sept 1819. https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/mm4ae/martin07.php [retrieved 3 Feb 2019].

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EBB guessed on the previous Monday, 14 May 1832, that the Boyds would move ‘the next day or the one after’. So they left on Tuesday 15 May. EBB to Boyd, 17 May 1832 #451. The diary breaks off before this farewell; wilder entries after 1 January 1832 were posthumously excised by her brother George, who had possession of the second volume.

‘I never could apprehend…’ EBB to Boyd 26 May 1832, #452.

‘Looking back…’ is quoted in EBB to Boyd 17 May 1832, #451.

Correspondence with the Revd Commeline lapses: ‘The conjunction of so much talent & so much indolence always appears to me a minor miracle.’ EBB to Lady Margaret Cocks 15 November 1833, #483. EBB to Boyd 27 January 1832, #439.

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EBB to Julia Martin 14 December 1832, #470. ‘They are incredulous here in my really thinking that you will not come to Sidmouth. But I do think so.’ EBB to Boyd 2 November 1832, #468; EBB to Boyd 22 November 1832, #469. EBB to Lady Margaret Cocks 15 May 1833, #478.

John Ruskin, Modern Painters (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1856) vol. 3, Part 4.

‘A footstep…’ AL Bk. 6, Ll. 391–92.

‘I have been riding a donkey two or three times, & enjoy very much going to the edge of the sea’, EBB to Julia Martin 28 August 1832, #462. EBB to Julia Martin 27 May 1833, #479.

‘We are all squeezed…’ Arabella MB to Ann Henrietta Boyd, 22 November 1832, #SD756. ‘We have had one chimney pulled down to prevent it from tumbling down; and have received especial injunctions from the bricklayers, not to lean too much out of the windows, for fear the walls should follow the destiny of the chimney.’ EBB to Julia Martin 7 September 1833, #481.

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‘No ties…’ EBB to Lady Margaret Cocks 14 September 1834, #488.

‘A pretty villa…’ EBB to Lady Margaret Cocks 15 November 1833, #483. Since extended, the house, now ‘Cedar Shade’, became first a hotel and then an old people’s home.

‘On dit…’ EBB to Julia Martin, 28 August 1832, #462. In fairness, Papa also sends Henrietta, escorted by Bro, to Torquay, where she is ‘far gayer than I should like to be, tho’ not I believe gayer than she liked to be’, #478.

‘Very full…’ #488.

Sixteen-year-old Henry has joined his father and, ‘Henrietta & Arabella & I are the only guardians just now of the three youngest boys the only ones at home’, EBB to Julia Martin 19 December 1834 #493. The brothers in Glasgow studied under an ‘Independent minister’, Dr Wardlaw, of whom Edward Barrett approved. ‘Georgie […] was examined in Logic, Moral philosophy, Greek & Latin […] his answers were more pertinent than those of any other of the examined, & elicited much applause.

[…] Stormie shrank from the public examination, on account of the hesitation in his speech. He would not go up,—altho’, according to report, as well qualified as Georgie. Mr Groube says that the ladies of Glasgow are preparing to break their hearts for Georgie’s departure.’

EBB to Boyd 21 April 1835, #504. https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH8409&type=P and https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/browse-graduates/?start=280&max=20&o=&l=b [retrieved 9 Oct 2019]

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‘Papa took him…’ #483.

‘A party led by Mr. Barrett would have prohibited the use of the cattle whip in the field, and the flogging of women under any circumstances, but they were overruled. Even a modified amendment, to substitute the military cat for the atrocious cattle whip, and to prevent unnecessary exposure when women were whipped, was rejected by twenty-four against seventeen.’ William James Gardner, A History of Jamaica (London: Elliot Stock, 1873), p. 263. Responding to Uncle Sam, Howick agreed that the hardliner plantocracy were, ‘Only putting arms into the hands of the extreme Anti-Slavery party, & making it more difficult to prevent the adoption of some violent course.’ Lord Howick to Samuel Barrett Moulton-Barrett 7 October 1831, SD745. Uncle Sam was MP for Richmond, Yorkshire 1820–28.

The Assembly’s estimate: March 1832 report quoted in Mary Turner, Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787–1834 (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1982), p. 121.

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‘All her negroes…’ Joseph Shore in John Stewart, ed, In Old St James (Jamaica) (Kingston, Jamaica: Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1911), p. 98.

Uncle Sam would remarry within two years, to Anne Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of plantation owners.

Papa agreed arrangements that Knibb proposed. Marks, The Family of the Barrett, p. 411.

In January 1831 the Colonial Church Union was founded, allegedly to support the established church, and in practice to try to force the closure of Nonconformist chapels by any means, including false imprisonment and arson.

Sharpe was hanged on 23 May 1832. He was buried in the sands of Montego Bay Harbour and later reinterred beneath the pulpit of Burchell Baptist Church.

Uncle Sam decreed Saturdays should be taken off: ‘Even during crop time.’ Marks, The Family of the Barrett, p. 410.

‘Highly disapprove…’ Mr McDonald, Custos of Trelawny, to the Governor of Jamaica, quoted in R. A. Barrett, The Barretts of Jamaica, p. 85.

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Sending in troops: R. A. Barrett, The Barretts of Jamaica, p. 86. Marks, The Family of the Barrett, pp. 406–407. The timing of Bro’s arrival in Jamaica: by 1833 the Atlantic crossing takes twenty-two days; Bro left Gravesend on 13 November 1833. ‘An exile…’ #488. ‘The West Indians…’ #479.

The scandal of the Baptist War is uncovered by two governmental inquiries within two years. Henry Belby, Death Struggles of Slavery: Being a Narrative of Facts and Incidents, Which Occurred in a British Colony, During the Two Years Immediately preceding Negro Emancipation (London: Hamilton & Adams and Co., 1853), Chapter IV ‘Blood’, pp. 25–36.

The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, founded by William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson et al., was succeeded in 1839 by the