{"id":4136,"date":"2026-01-04T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/lord-john-grey-02-lord-john-and-the-brotherhood-of-the-blade-gabaldon-diana\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:09:38","slug":"lord-john-grey-02-lord-john-and-the-brotherhood-of-the-blade-gabaldon-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/lord-john-grey-02-lord-john-and-the-brotherhood-of-the-blade-gabaldon-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord John Grey 02 – Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade – Gabaldon, Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The author would like to thank all the kind people who have given me information and help in the course of this novel, particularly\u2014<\/p>\n


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\u2026Mr. Richard Jacobs, Krefeld local historian, and his wife Monika, who walked the battlefield at Krefeld (\u201cCrefeld\u201d is the older, eighteenth-century spelling) and the Landwehr<\/span> with me, explaining the local geography.<\/p>\n


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\u2026the staff of the small museum at H\u00fcckelsmay\u2014where cannonballs from the battle of Crefeld are still embedded in the walls of the house\u2014for their kind reception and useful information.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Barbara Schnell and her family, without whom I would probably never have heard of Crefeld.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Mr. Howarth Penney for his kind interest, and his most useful gift of Titles and Forms of Address<\/span> (published by A&C Black, London), which was of great help in negotiating the perilous straits of British aristocratic nomenclature. Any error in such matters is either the author\u2019s mistake\u2014or the author\u2019s exercise of fictional license. While we do strive for the greatest degree of historical accuracy possible, we are not above making things up now and then. (That is not, by the way, a Royal \u201cwe\u201d I just mean me and the people who live inside my head.) A Duke, however, is<\/span> addressed as \u201cYour Grace,\u201d and a Duke\u2019s younger son(s) addressed as \u201cLord____.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\u2026Mr. Horace Walpole, that inveterate correspondent whose witty and detailed letters provided me with a vivid window into eighteenth-century society.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Project Gutenberg, for providing me with excellent access to the complete correspondence of Mr. Walpole.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Gus the dachshund, and Otis Stout the pug (aka \u201cHercules\u201d), who generously allowed the use of their personae. (Yes, I do know that dachshunds were not an official breed in the eighteenth century, but I\u2019m sure that some inventive German dog-fancier had the idea prior to their establishment with the AKC. Badgers have been around for a long time.)<\/p>\n


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\u2026Christine Reynolds, Assistant Keeper of the Muniments of the Parish Church of St. Margaret\u2019s, for extremely useful information regarding the history and structures of the church, including a very useful organ loft under which to give birth, and Catherine MacGregor for suggesting St. Margaret\u2019s and for finding Ms. Reynolds.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Patricia Fuller, Paulette Langguth, Pamela Patchet, pamelalass, and doubtless several other people not<\/span> beginning with \u201cP,\u201d for information regarding eighteenth-century public exhibitions of art, and the history of specific artists and paintings.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Philip Larkin, whose remarkably revealing portrait of the first Duke of Buckingham (presently displayed in the Royal Portrait Gallery in London) provided one of the first seeds of inspiration for this book. (And neither I nor Mr. Larkin are maligning the first Duke of Buckingham, either.)<\/p>\n


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\u2026Laura Watkins, late of the Stanford Polo Club, for expert opinion as to the mechanics of a horse jumping ditches.<\/p>\n


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\u2026\u201coorjanie\u201d of the Ladies of Lallybroch for graciously allowing the star employee of an up-and-coming brothel to share her name.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Karen Watson, our London correspondent, of Her Majesty\u2019s Customs and Excise, for her generous sleuthing through the history and byways of her beloved city, to lend a reasonable verisimilitude to Lord John\u2019s geographical excursions.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Laura Bailey, for insight and advice regarding eighteenth-century clothing and custom.<\/p>\n


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\u2026David Niven, for his very entertaining and honest autobiographies, The Moon\u2019s a Balloon,<\/span> and Bring on the Empty Horses,<\/span> which included a useful look at the social workings of a British regiment (as well as helpful information regarding how to survive a long formal dinner). Also, George MacDonald Fraser, for his MacAuslan in the Rough,<\/span> a collection of stories about life in a WWII Highland Regiment.<\/p>\n


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\u2026Isaac Trion, whose hand-drawn watercolor map of the battle of Crefeld, drawn in 1758, adorns my wall, and whose painstaking details adorn the story.<\/p>\n


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\u2026The assorted gentlemen (and ladies) who were kind enough to read and comment on sex scenes. (As a matter of public interest, a poll regarding one such scene came back with the following results: \u201cPositive: I want to know more\u201482%; Negative: This makes me uncomfortable\u20144%; Slightly shocked, but not put off\u201410%; Neutral\u20144%.)<\/p>\n

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