Jane and the Stillroom Maid - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Stephanie Barron (ч. notes)

Примечания

1

Jane’s adventures while with the Reverend Thomas Leigh in Warwickshire may be found in “Jane and the Spoils of Stoneleigh,” in Malice Domestic 7, Avon Books, 1998. — Editor’s note.

2

The Cock and Pynot of Old Whittington is now the Revolution House, a museum dedicated to the conspirators of 1688, where Mr. John d’Arcy’s contribution is duly noted. — Editor’s note.

3

Much of Jane Austen’s description of her first view of Chatsworth echoes wording she would later employ to describe Elizabeth Bennet’s first glimpse of Pemberley, the Derbyshire estate of Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Pride and Prejudice. — Editor’s note.

4

Present-day visitors to Chatsworth will detect a discrepancy here between Jane’s description of its interior and grounds and the manner in which both now appear. The sixth Duke of Devonshire made extensive renovations and additions to the estate after his accession in 1811. The colonnade through which Jane passed was then enclosed, and the twin staircases replaced with a single flight and matching galleries along the east and west walls. — Editor’s note.

5

Spencer was the maiden name of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. — Editor’s note.

6

Blue John is a blue-colored fluorspar peculiar to Derbyshire. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was often carved into vases and ornamental figures, examples of which may be seen at Chatsworth today. — Editor’s note.

7

Although the Duke of Devonshire had not yet acknowledged his paternity of Lady Elizabeth Foster’s children by 1806, he was to do so several years later. Lady Elizabeth bore the duke a daughter, named Caroline St. Jules, in 1785, and a son, named Augustus William Clifford, in 1788. The Cavendish family has always maintained, however, that William Cavendish, born 1790 and here referred to as the Marquess of Hartington, was indeed Georgiana’s son. — Editor’s note.

8

By paregoric, the stillroom maid probably meant paregoric elixir — an apothecary’s compound of camphorated tincture of opium flavored with aniseed and benzoic acid. — Editor’s note.

9

The Assizes, in the British legal system of Austen’s time, was a court convened by a superior judge for each county; it was this judge’s duty to hear civil and criminal cases remanded by local magistrates, including capital crimes. The Assizes were held aperiodically, and the accused could wait months for a trial. Austen’s aunt, Mrs. Leigh-Perrot, spent more than seven months in the Somerset County jail awaiting trial on a charge of shoplifting, which at the time was considered grand larceny, and carried a sentence of death or transportation. She was acquitted in March 1800. — Editor’s note.

10

The partridge season opened September 1, and pheasant season October 1. — Editor’s note.

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A quarto volume was one in which a sheet of paper was folded in four leaves, or eight pages, each of which was cut with a knife when read — or in this case, inscribed. It was roughly nine by twelve inches in size. — Editor’s note.