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Centuries: the Balance’, in Centro de Estudos de História do Atlantico, 1996. http://www.madeira-edu.pt/Portals/31/CEHA/bdigital/hm-esc-2en.pdf [retrieved 22 August 2018].

‘I fell into the habit…’ EBB to RB 20 December 1845, #2144.

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For subsequent children there’s a full year between a delivery and the next conception.

Marriage recorded in ‘Provincial Occurrences’ in Monthly Magazine and Register (1 June 1805).

Double christenings become the family pattern.

James Ramsay MacDonald, ‘Rham, Willam Lewis’ in Dictionary of National Biography 1885–1900, vol. 48, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rham,_William_Lewis_(DNB00) [retrieved 2 July 2018].

Edward has enjoyed easy, informal access to the Graham-Clarke household.

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Orientalism becomes especially fashionable once India comes under crown control in 1858. The Royal Pavilion at Brighton doesn’t acquire its famous, fantastical exoskeleton of cast-iron domes by John Nash till 1815–21, though the interior decor of Henry Holland’s 1786 design, by John Crase and Sons, is in Chinese style.

C. A. Hewitt bought Hope End in 1867 from Thomas Heywood, chairman of the Worcester and Hereford Railway, an antiquary who, like Edward Barrett, became High Sheriff of Herefordshire.

OPENING FRAME

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Italo Calvino, quoted in Esther Calvino’s ‘Note’ to Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002), pp. 84–85.

BOOK TWO

Epigraph

AL Bk 7, Ll. 1306–308, 1311.

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EBB to Henrietta MB c.July 1821, #134.

Gloucester spa grew up round springs discovered in Ridley Stile in 1814. The following year, Sir James Jelf built a pump room, laid out gardens, and was bankrupted; under shareholder ownership it remained open. The Spa Hotel was completed in 1818. Gloucester Journal (5 & 12 September & 21 November 1814, 24 April & 8 May 1815). ‘Bath and Cheltenham occupy the toy and dissipation trade; indeed the latter is a very shouldering, unpleasant neighbour.’ Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke, An original history of the city of Gloucester, almost wholly compiled from new materials; supplying the numerous deficiencies, and correcting the errors, of preceding accounts; including also the original papers of the late Ralph Bigland, esq. (London: John Nichols and Son, 1819), p. 31. http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/weather.html https://www.booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/histclimat.htm [retrieved 9 October 2019].

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Engraving c.1820 by W. Holl after Henry Room, http://www.artfinder.com/work/john-baron-engraved-by-w-holl-from-the-national-portrait-gallery/ [retrieved 30 August 2018].

‘Penchant for the pillow…’ #134. ‘Out in my chair…’ EBB to Mary MB c.June 1821, #131.

Born in Jamaica at nearly the same time as Ba’s father, Nuttall is close in age to Uncle Sam. There is no record of the Nuttalls as plantocracy, but one Thomas Nuttall was Master of the last Liverpool slaving ship, the Kitty’s Amelia. https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/140-5-Behrendt.pdf [retrieved 4 September 2018], Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, vol. 101 (January–June 1831) (London: Nichols and Son, 1831), p. 186. George Ricketts Nuttall is listed as a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in The Royal Kalendar: and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies, for the year 1822 (London: Hansard, 1822), p. 282.

Diagnostic letter: William Cother to Edward B MB, 24 June 1821, SD389. ‘You have a description of it from her own eloquent pen’, Cother reminds Nuttall, who has not actually examined EBB but commends her for ‘deliver[ing] so clear a description of the symptoms which necessarily obtruded themselves on your own observation’. William Cother to George Ricketts Nuttall 24 June 1821, SD389.1 Nuttall to EBB 31 May 1821, #130.

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‘The right side…’ SD389.1. Nuttall hasn’t prescribed opium; simply a purgative (jalap root, extract of aloes, submuriate of mercury). ‘Motions… Your active turn of mind…’ #130. ‘Derangement… I do not wish…’ #131.

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‘A young lady on her back…’ EBB to Henrietta MB c.November 1821, #138. ‘Often entertained…’ EBB to Arabella Graham-Clarke early 1822, #146.

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‘Long weary sickness…’ EBB to Lady Margaret Cocks c.13 March 1838, #619. Bro’s been with Ba in Gloucester since at least 7 August: EBB to Henrietta MB 5 October 1821, #137 and Edward MB to Henrietta MB 9 August 1821, SD396. He’s still there in September: EBB to Henrietta MB 12 September 1821, #136. Papa visits Ba: Edward MB to EBB 31 December 1821, #145; EBB to Lady Margaret Cocks, March 1838, #619. No later letters by Bro from Gloucester survive and by 23 December he’s writing from home: Edward MB to EBB 23 December 1821, #142; Mary MB to Henrietta MB October 1821, SD410.

‘Little Tommy Cooke…’ #137. Cooke will later encounter the Barrett boys socially. R. Dingwall, An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing (London: Routledge, 1988), p. 17. Cf. literary London’s snobbery about ‘Cockney rhymester’ John Keats.

‘Medical skill’ makes Cooke Dr Baron’s ‘illustrious coadjutor’. #138.

Florence Nightingale to Sir Thomas Watson, Bart, London 19 January 1867, quoted in Robert Gaffney, ‘Women as Doctors and Nurses’ in Olive Checkland, Margaret Lamb, eds, Health Care as Social History: The Glasgow Case (Aberdeen: Elsevier Science, 1982), pp. 134–48, 139.

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Dr John Carden to Edward BMB 8 May 1821, SD379. Valerian is especially prescribed today for insomnia, anxiety and depression, period pain and other cramps and tremors, chronic fatigue syndrome and fits. An elm bark decoction is prescribed for scurvy in Hugh Smythson, The Compleat Family Physician or Universal Medical Repository (London: Harrison and Co., 1785), p. 321. An astringent bark draught for bloody urine in smallpox is prescribed in G. G. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, J. Walker and T. N. London, London Practice of Physic: The Sixth Edition (London: Longman, 1797), pp. 93–94. https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-allergies-and-toxicity/#npc [retrieved 4 September 2018].

‘Opium… The mind… Only a relish…’ SD389.1. ‘Daily dispatches…’ #130.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/sc200919 [retrieved 18 January 2019].

In letters to the BMJ editor, J. N. Milnes and J. G. Weir weigh in to Young’s debate on the side of encephalomyelitis because of some of EBB’s secondary symptoms, including sensory abnormalities and paroxysms. But both admit that this doesn’t explain her illness before the measles: Weir, J. G., ‘The illnesses of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’, in British Medical Journal vol. 298 (18 March 1989); J. N. Milnes, ‘The illnesses of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’ in British Medical Journal vol. 298 (22 April 1989); D. A. B. Young, ‘The illnesses of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’ in British Medical Journal vol. 298 (18 February 1989) pp. 439–43, p. 441. Young discusses how the adult