The Keeper- Mary Bennet's Extraordinary Journey

by Don Jacobson

  [xvi] William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 111, Scene 1, 80. From http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_140.html accessed 12.28/15.

  [xvii] Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was published under the pseudonym “By a Lady” on October 30, 1811. It is possible that Mr. Bennet’s standing order with the Meryton bookshop for “anything new” may have meant a copy of S & S found its way to Longbourn in the six weeks leading up to the wedding.

  [xviii] In P&P, Mary speaks seven lines.

  [xix] William Blake (1757-1827). The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plates 17-20, "A Memorable Fancy," (c. 1793) accessed from http://www.poemhunter.com/william-blake/ on 12/29/15.

  [xx] See Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Emile Book V (which covers the education of Emile’s helpmeet, Sophy).

  [xxi] Leviticus 19:10

  [xxii] Matthew 7:1 KJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A1-3&version=KJV accessed 1/2/16.

  [xxiii] John 8:7 KJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8&version=KJV accessed 1/2/16.

  [xxiv] Matthew 7:3-5 KJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A3-5&version=KJV accessed 1/2/16.

  [xxv] Lennon/McCartney.

  [xxvi] John Milton, Comus I, 93 (1634) http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11186/origin-and-meaning-of-every-cloud-has-a-silver-lining accessed 1/3/16.

  [xxvii] Dave to Dave in 2001: A Space Oddyssey

  [xxviii] Yes, Leonardo di Caprio in The Revenant (2015) inspired the author.

  [xxix] This is an intentional nod to Lasse Halstrom’s wonderful motion picture Chocolat (2000).

  [xxx] See the Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O’Brien. I have taken a modest liberty with the Aubrey timeline. Jack commanded the 50-gun Leopard in 1812. He re-assumed Surprise in 1813.

  [xxxi] The machine to apply adhesive to the seams and flap of machine-made envelopes was not fully developed until the 1880s.

  [xxxii] 15” X 10” http://www.trussel.com/books/booksize.htm accessed 1/11/16.

  [xxxiii] Birthday party honoring French pianist Maurice Ravel in 1928. From left to right: conductor, Oscar Fried; singer, Eva Gauthier; Maurice Ravel (at piano); composer-conductor, Manoah Leide-Tedesco; and composer George Gershwin. Wide World Photos 1928. Scanned from original photo of Manoah Leide-Tedesco. Accessed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin on 1/11/16.

  [xxxiv] See http://www.vintagepens.com/filling_instructions_Waterman_eyedropper.shtml accessed 1/12/16.

  [xxxv] Psalm 57:7 NIV http://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/57-7.html accessed 1/12/16.

  [xxxvi] http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.asp, (1784) Para 1. Accessed 1/13/16.

  [xxxvii] Postage stamps were introduced in 1840 with the first being Great Britain’s “Penny Black.”

  [xxxviii] Patrick O’Brien, H.M.S. Surprise, W.W. Norton Co. e-book, 2011. Pg. 113.

  [xxxix] Psalm 107: 23-25 ESV http://www.openbible.info/topics/the_ocean accessed 1/15/16.

  [xl] Mail across the Atlantic took between 20 days and five weeks in 1812. See Quentin Scott King’s Henry Clay and the War of 1812, McFarland, 2014, Pg. 338.

  [xli] “You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.” John Adams Letter to J. Q. Adams, May 14, 1781.

  [xlii] For a very readable treatment of American relations with Great Britain from 1795 to 1823, please see Bradford Perkins’ remarkable three book series.

  [xliii] The martini was allegedly created in a mining camp in Martinez, California in the 1860s.

  [xliv] High Flight, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1941). Accessed from http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/highflig.htm on 1/17/16.

  [xlv] I keep seeing the oleaginous Collins as a precursor to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gollum.

  [xlvi] 3/29-4/4, 1815. Rory Muir, Wellington and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852, (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven), 2015 pg. 595.

  [xlvii] Romans 14:8 http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/bible-verses-about-death/ accessed 1/20/16.

  [xlviii] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speaking through Sherlock Holmes

  [xlix] Shortening of Honorable East India Company.

  [l] Ephesians 1:7 http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Redemption,-In-Nt Accessed 1/29/16.

  [li] This is a misquote of Wellington’s comment to Creevey “…nice run thing…” which has survived to posterity.

  [lii] Highly trained British units during the Napoleonic Wars could fire and reload to fire again once every 20 seconds. This devastating rate of fire overwhelmed more poorly trained and equipped French units.

  [liii] Knight Commander of the Bath (instituted in 1815 by the Prince Regent)

  [liv] Named after General Henry Shrapnel of the British Army who, when a Lieutenant under Lord Wellesley during the Peninsular campaign invented the exploding shell.

  [lv] In the modern sense… Sense of "tendency to create ordered and satisfying wholes" is 1924, from Gestalt psychology. Accessed 2/15/16 from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=closure

  [lvi] See http://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Becket accessed 2/16/16.

  [lvii] Heart of Oak is the official British Navy march. http://www.contemplator.com/england/heartoak.html accessed 2/16/16.

  [lviii] While variations preceded his use, Napoleon’s comment was a slight. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/12650.html accessed 2/16/16.

  [lix] Patron Saint of Housekeepers accessed from http://apostle.com/female-patron-saints on 2/18/16.

  [lx] According to legend, Dom Pierre Perignon upon tasting his newly created champagne cried out “Come quickly! I am tasting stars!” http://www.corkquiz.com/public/wine_france_champagne.cfm on 2/18/16.

  [lxi] Elizabeth, the wife of Zechariah, could not conceive…until a miraculous reveal. From http://christianity.about.com/od/newtestamentpeople/a/Elizabeth.htm Accessed 2/19/16.

  [lxii] I have taken the literary liberty to age the man who later would become Cardinal Newman. The real Newman was born in 1801 and would have been far too young to greet Mary and Edward as a priest in 1815. Also, the real Newman was an Anglican Priest and educator who converted to Catholicism in 1845. The Pope beatified him in 2010.

  [lxiii] Shelley’s first wife committed suicide in December 1816. Mary and Percy married on December 30, 1816. She published the full version of Frankenstein in 1818. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/frankenstein/mary-shelley-biography Accessed 4/9/16.

  [lxiv] Genesis 1:3 http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-3.htm accessed 4/9/16.

  [lxv] Michael Sadler led a Parliamentary Commission 1831-32 examining working conditions in textile factories.

  [lxvi] The Factory Act of 1833 is considered the most important of a series of manufacturing laws regulating working conditions and limiting child labor. http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/19thcentury/overview/factoryact/ Accessed 4/12/16.

  [lxvii] Society was founded in 1823. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 Accessed 4/12/16.

  [lxviii] Modeled after the Manchester Female Reform Society present on the field that day.

  [lxix] http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/hymn/jwg02/jwg0266.html Accessed 2/4/16.

  [lxx]Francis A. Bruton, The Story of Peterloo (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1919), P. 14. Quoting The Manchester Observer.

  [lxxi] Hay and Fletcher were Manchester City Magistrates empowered “to keep order.”

  [lxxii] “In 1819, Lancashire was represented by two Members of Parliament (MPs). Voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land with an annual rental value of 40 shillings or more – the equivalent of about £80 in 2008[1] –. Constituency boundaries were out of date, and the so-called rotten boroughs had a hugely disproportionate influence on the membership of the Parliament of the United Kingdom compared to the size of their populations: Old Sarum in Wiltshire, with one voter, elected two MPs,[2] as did Dunwich in Suffolk, which by the early 19th century had almost completely disappeared into the sea.[3] The major urban centers of Manchester, Salford, Bo
lton, Blackburn, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham and Stockport, with a combined population of almost one million, were represented by either the two county MPs for Lancashire, or the two for Cheshire in the case of Stockport.” From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre#CITEREFBruton1919 Accessed 2/4/16.

  [lxxiii] This design is a miniature predecessor of the “gun type” atomic weapon “Thin Man” used in August 1945 over Hiroshima, Japan.

  [lxxiv] German for “annihilation,” but in the context used by the Nazis when considering “The Final Solution” implies a stronger sense of eradication, erasure.

  [lxxv] The Battle of the Falaise Pocket (12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the World War II. Accessed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falaise_Pocket on February 10, 2016.

  [lxxvi] See http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/july-28-liberty-leading-people for more on this remarkable politically charged work.

  [lxxvii] “Leave him alone, bastards.” In German.

  [lxxviii] “Watch out, Hans, they are coming back for another pass!” In English and German.

  [lxxix] “I am here, Hans. Hold on.” In French.

  [lxxx] Psalm 63:1-4 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+63&version=KJV accessed 2/10/16.

  [lxxxi] Wellington on first post-Reform Act Parliament where factory owners and men of business entered in droves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington accessed on 2/19/16.

  [lxxxii] George Gershwin reportedly conceived Rhapsody in Blue while on a train trip from New York to Boston.

  [lxxxiii] Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

  [lxxxiv] Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five.