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May 23 - May 30, 2023
I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out the reason for and explanation of everything . . . To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable. —QUEEN VICTORIA TO HER GRANDDAUGHTER, PRINCESS VICTORIA OF HESSE, 22 AUGUST 1883
Stoker
Lord Rosemorran,
Stoker and I had been given the task of establishing the museum.
his lordship’s sister, Lady Cordelia Beauclerk.
Mrs. Bascombe
Housekeeper
Curiosity Club.” My ears pricked up. Known formally as the Hippolyta Club,
ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. “‘She flies with her own wings,’”
“Lady Sundridge,
We are educated out of common sense, curiosity, and any real merit. We are made to be decorative and worthy of display, with occasional forays into procreation and good works, but nothing more.”
Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch,
John Campbell, the Marquess of Lorne, heir to the Duke of Argyll.”
The Ramsforth case had dominated the news for some months. The facts were simple, but the salacious details had ensured that the affair was splashed across the newspapers.
Miles Ramsforth was accused of murdering his mistress, an artist by the name of Artemisia.”
“Sir Frederick was married to Augusta Troyon, who died some years ago.
Miles is married to her younger sister, Ottilie.
our great-aunt, Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk.”
bulldog, Huxley,
Caucasian sheepdog, Betony.
It is the greatest advantage of getting old, you know. I can say precisely what I like and everyone excuses it because I knew Moses from his bulrush days.”
Reverend Cecil Baring-Ponsonby.
“Julian Gilchrist, portraitist and ass,”
competing theories of evolution proposed by Darwin and Lamarck?”
Ingredi, del voluptatis causa,’” he read aloud. “An invitation to pleasure,”
“When I most had need of you, you did not leave me. Whatever this thing is that makes us different, this thing that makes quicksilver of us when the rest of the world is mud, it binds us. To break that would be to fly in the face of nature.”
