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12 KJV Bible, Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
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Drury Lane Vestal - A whore, according to the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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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."
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A Selection of Irish Melodies, 4 (November 1811) Thomas Moore, Irish Poet, singer, songwriter and entertainer. (May 1779 – February 1852)
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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."
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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
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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
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Bit of Muslin. According to The Regency Encyclopedia, a bit of muslin referred to a woman or a girl.
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Elizabeth the 1
st
, The Virgin Queen, November 17, 1558 – March 24, 1603

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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
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Some excerpts from
Pride and Prejudice
, Jane Austen, Chapter 59.
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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
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Pride and Prejudice
, Jane Austen, Chapter 58.
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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
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A transparent crimped silk gauze. The Regency Encyclopedia
.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lych-gate is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to traditional English or English-style churchyard. Wikipedia.org
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Dates are fabricated to fit the story.
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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.
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