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Authors: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Tags: #Aristocracy (Social Class) - England, #Historical Fiction, #Family, #Fantasy, #Great Britain - History - 19th century, #General, #Romance, #Napoleonic Wars; 1800-1815, #Sagas, #Great Britain, #Historical, #Fiction, #Domestic fiction, #Morland family (Fictitious characters)

The Victory

A Warner Book

 

First published in Great Britain in 1989 by

Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd

This edition published by Futura in 1989

Reprinted 1989, 1990

Reprinted by Warner Books in 1993, 1994,
2000

Copyright © Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 1989

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

All characters in this publication are fictitious

and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead,

is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced,

stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any

form or by any means without the prior

permission in writing of the publisher, nor be

otherwise circulated in any form of binding or

cover other than that in which it is published and

without a similar condition including this

condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

ISBN 0 7515 0649 4

Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc

Warner Books

A Division of

Little, Brown and Company (UK)

Brettenham House

Lancaster Place

London WC2E 7EN

 

To Lesley, Cathy, and Sid,

 
 

without whose support many a book

 
 

would be started, but few finished.

 
 
 

FOREWORD

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

FOREWORD
 

In anticipation of the question I know I shall be asked, the
plague that breaks out in Manchester in this book is cholera.
There really was an epidemic of cholera in Manchester in
1796, and another in 1832, but the outbreak of 1806 is my
invention.

Regarding the battle of Trafalgar, all the ships I mention
really did take part, except for the
Nemesis,
the
Cetus,
and
the
Furieux,
which I invented for my purposes. There also
really was a King's ship
York,
and she really did sail into
oblivion on Boxing Day 1803. I hope the Royal Navy will
forgive me for giving her a new captain for the occasion; and
also for the truly dreadful things I did to the poor
Africa,
before handing her over to the real Captain Digby in time for
the battle.

My grateful thanks are due to Steve Howick, and all the
other officers of the Senior Service whom I consulted at
Portsmouth and Greenwich, for their courtesy in taking my enquiries seriously, and their patience in answering them so
fully.

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edward Baines
                    
History of the Cotton Manufacture of

Great Britain

R. Bayne-Powell
                  
The English Child in the Eighteenth

Century

Geoffrey Bennett
                 
The Battle of Trafalgar

*

Memoirs of Lady Bess borough
G.D.H. Cole &

R. Postgate
                      
The Common People 1746-1946

*

Letters of Cuthbert, Viscount
Collingwood

John Ferriar
                         
Proceedings of the Board of Health
in Manchester 1805

Christopher Hibbert
           
George IV Prince of Wales

E.J. Hobsbawm
                  
Industry and Empire

William
Howitt
                  
The Rural Life of England

William
Jesse
                      
Life of Beau Brummell

Michael Lewis
                      
England's Sea Officers

Rene Maine
                          
Trafalgar

J.H. Plumb
                          
The First Four Georges

R.E. Prothero
                      
English Farming Past and Present

E.S. Turner
                          
The Court of St James

J.S. Watson
                          
The Reign of George III

R.K. Webb
                          
Modern England

*

Memoirs of Harriette Wilson

*

Diary and Correspondence of
William Windham

*

Contemporary sources

 

BOOK ONE

 
 

The Dolphin

 

Baby, baby, naughty baby,

 

Hush, you squalling thing, I say;

 

Hush your squalling, or
it
may be,

 

Bonaparte may pass this way.

 
 

Baby, baby, he's a giant,

 

Tall and black as Rouen steeple;

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