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

10 September 1846, #2594. Uncle Sam’s shares: ‘Stormie told me the other day that I had eight thousand pounds in the funds,—of which the interest comes to me quarterly […] from forty to forty five pounds Papa gives me every three months, the income tax being first deducted. […] Then there is the ship money .. a little under two hundred a year on an average […] the annual amount of which […] has been added to the Fund-money until this year, when I was directed to sign a paper which invested […] the annual return in the Eastern Railroad [to] increase by doubling almost […] Then there are the ten shares in Drury Lane Theatre—out of which, comes nothing.’ EBB to RB 5 August 1846, #2526.

‘Stormie told me this morning…’ EBB to RBB 6 August 1846, #2528.

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‘Sixteen pounds a year…’ EBB to RBB 22 July 1846, #2499. Thanking Wilson for standing witness because Robert’s closest friend, Captain Pritchard, is away: RB to EBB 12 September 1845, #2597; RB to EBB 13 September 1846, #2600.

p. 172

‘It does make us laugh…’ EBB to Arabella MB 13 September 1847, #2701. ‘Emotion & confusion…’ EBB to RB 13 September 1846, #2599. ‘You shall have the ring…’ EBB to RB 10 September 1846 #2596.

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On journalists: EBB to RB 12 September 1846, #2598. On Mr Boyd: EBB to RB 30 June 1846, #2446. ‘Grave faces…’ #2598. EBB continues: ‘I kept saying, “What nonsense, .. what fancies you do have to be sure”, .. trembling in my heart with every look they cast at me—.’ ‘I will be docile…’ EBB to RB 16 September 1846, #2608.

p. 174

Timetable muddles: EBB to RB 18 September 1846, #2613. Le Havre is still Havre-de-Grace. The Railway Times vol. IX, no. 38 (19 September 1846), p. 1368. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w2I3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1368&lpg=PA1368&dq=london+weather+12+september+1846&source=bl&ots=Ac9wp3yUFY&sig=ACfU3U0hYWNaMIMqvuaf6akTMWT6Dw8x3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjU9NSVx_fhAhVaShUIHVptCNEQ6AEwFHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=london%20weather%2012%20september%201846&f=false [retrieved 30 April 2019].

At EBB’s request, the newspaper text substitutes plain ‘Saturday’ for a date, leaving room for the belief that it takes place on the day they leave the country. EBB to RB 14 September 1846, #2604.

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EBB puts off friends, and cancels Miss Mitford.

‘My dearest George… I knew…’ EBB to George Goodin MB 17–18 September 1846, #2616.

45 New Cavendish Street was then 9 Great Marylebone Street. The family firm of Hodgson’s also had a stationers and bookshop at 6 Great Marylebone Street, on the actual corner of the terrace where the Barretts lived. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/chapter15_devonshire, pp. 4, 25 [retrieved 1 May 2019].

‘After the Havre… Now five horses…’ EBB to Arabella MB 26 September 1846, #2620. They arrive in Le Havre six months before the new boat train service direct to Paris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris–Le_Havre_railway [retrieved 2 May 2019].

p. 176

‘I prevailed… We were deposited… She came…’ #2620.

p. 177

‘Just a pretty…’ EBB to Henrietta MB 23 November 1847, #2711. In Robert, on the other hand, Anna Jameson sees ‘inexhaustible wit, & learning & good humour’. EBB to Mitford 2 October 1846, #2622; EBB to Arabella MB 16–19 October 1846, #2624. ‘Death warrant… Very hard letters…’ EBB to Arabella MB 2 October 1846, #2621. ‘He will wish…’ EBB to RB 14 September 1846, #2604. ‘“Imprudence” into “Prudence” …’ #2621.

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‘We hear… I want…’ EBB to Julia Martin 22 October 1846, #2625.

Fontaine de Vaucluse: #2624. ‘Nearly as much attention…’ #2622.

‘Glittering… A thousand mountains…’ #2624.

p. 179

‘Beautiful Genoa… And now this is… You would certainly smile…’ #2624. Their companions stay in Pisa a month, then go on to Rome where Jameson researches her masterpiece, Sacred and Legendary Art. https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/tracing-the-footsteps-of-romes-foreign-writers-and-artists.html [retrieved 26 November 2019].

‘We have our dinners from the Trattoria…’ EBB to Julia Martin 5–9 November 1846, #2627.

p. 180

‘Infinitely more… We are going to be busy…’ #2624. ‘The ordering of the dinner…’ EBB to Mitford 5–8 November 1846, #2626.

p. 181

‘Lizards…’ #2627. ‘Won’t call me improved…’ #2626.

‘Towards evening…In the first moment…’ EBB and RB to Arabel and Henrietta MB 26 March 1847, #2663. ‘So dreadfully affected…’ EBB to Henrietta MB 31 March 1847, #2664.

p. 182

‘Wilson…’ #2663.

SEVENTH FRAME

p. 183

Gillian Rose, Preface in Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p. v.

BOOK EIGHT

Epigraph

AL Bk 5, Ll. 227–29.

p. 185

‘I persuaded…’ EBB to Henrietta MB c.24–30 April 1847, #2670.

p. 186

‘& saucers &c &c…’ EBB to Arabella MB, 29–30 May 1847, #2680. ‘A bottle… A bad artist…’ EBB to Henrietta MB 23–24 November 1847, #2711. In 1849 Geddie marries her ‘bad artist’, becoming working partner to Rome-based Scottish painter and art-photographer Robert Macpherson (1814–72), and herself a photographer and engraver and eventually her aunt’s biographer. ‘Matrimonio…’ EBB to Henrietta MB [?24]–30 April 1847, #2670. Greetings: EBB to Arabella MB 6 May 1847, #2672.

Thomas Carlyle to RB, 23 June 1847, #2682; quoted in EBB to Henrietta MB 9 July 1847, #2684.

Curtis will write up his visit in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, September 1861, as an obituary. EBB to Henrietta MB 16 May 1847, #2678.

‘Half past ten…’ #2680.

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‘I dream…’ EBB to Arabella MB 12 April 1847, #2668. Brotherly contact: EBB to Henrietta MB 21–24 February 1848, #2719. Criticism: ‘That [Henry] shd be hindered in the legitimate & honorable desire of taking a step out into life for himself.’ EBB to Arabella MB 6 May 1847, #2672.

‘Disposed to scold…’ Henrietta MB to Samuel MB 14–15 July 1839, SD1018.

p. 188

Daisy’s bride, a Barrett cousin, is thought to have mental health problems. Stormie’s estate is Bryngwyn, in Montgomeryshire. R. A. Barrett, The Barretts of Jamaica. For Uncle Sam’s daughter see p. 184; for Stormie’s daughters see pp. 138–39, 181; for Sette’s daughter see p. 139.

EBB’s enjoyment: Frances Hanford to Frances Parthenope Nightingale 21 May 1847, SD1320.

p. 189

‘On their arrival…’ #2681. ‘We could not lead…’ EBB to RB 2 July 1846, #2455. The Ugolino connection is made later: EBB to Arabella MB 10–11 May 1848, #2731. ‘The eight windows…’ EBB to Arabella MB 26 July 1847, #2686.

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‘At about eight… The green plaid…’ EBB to Arabella MB 6 May 1847, #2672.

‘We have taken Anunziata [sic] with us in our <place> of residence’: #2686.

‘Little front-caps…’ EBB to Henrietta