The Appointments Matter AFG Ep 92

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07/15/17 • 45 min

Minnie on the other hand is making social connections and getting new work as she becomes known in London. She has two appointment books, one the "chuppointment" book for her everyday activities and calendar, the rougher artistic sketchbook for the meetings that require subtlety and no mention out loud. The listing of her activities for one week could make even the busiest of person's head spin. She is buying and selling books, as well as, information. I adore how Diana Gabaldon finds real and applicable books and people to weave into the story.

The two largest developments in these chapters are Harry Quarry hiring Minnie to find proof of the affair between Nathaniel Twelvetrees and Esme Grey, and Mrs. Simpson turning out to be her Aunt Miriam instead of her mother.

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Links to the interesting facts within the pages and podcast:

Cockspur Hawthorn Tree -http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/st210, http://www.2020site.org/trees/hawthorn.html
Philologus Hebraeus https://www.abebooks.com/Philologus-Hebraeus-EXCEEDINGLY-IMPORTANT-comprehensive-study/611308017/bd
Histoire de la Guerre des juifs Contre les Romains https://books.google.com/books/about/Histoire_de_la_guerre_des_Juifs_contre_l.html?id=FBTMXDbSJJkC
De Sacrificus Libri Duo quorum altero Explicantur Omnia Judaeorum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Owtram
Mahomet the Imposter https://books.google.com/books?id=DLhaAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks
Vauxhall gardens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Gardens
Promenade Hyde Park http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/hydepark.htm
Duke of Beaufort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Beaufort
St. George’s Hanover Square http://www.stgeorgeshanoversquare.org/
St. Clements http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/39885-st-clement-danes-church#FrJQIwKssdclyVG7.97

What’s Coming up? The Fugitive Green chapters 7-9, from Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collection.

How can you participate? To have your questions, comments for the regular read along, email or call in to the listener line 3 days prior to airing for inclusion. Join the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday nights at 6pm PT/9pm ET to discuss the previous latest podcast chapters using the hashtag #ADoO. Comments or messages may be included in the podcast or a written post.

The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook

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Links to the interesting facts within the pages and podcast:

Cockspur Hawthorn Tree -http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/st210, http://www.2020site.org/trees/hawthorn.html
Philologus Hebraeus https://www.abebooks.com/Philologus-Hebraeus-EXCEEDINGLY-IMPORTANT-comprehensive-study/611308017/bd
Histoire de la Guerre des juifs Contre les Romains https://books.google.com/books/about/Histoire_de_la_guerre_des_Juifs_contre_l.html?id=FBTMXDbSJJkC
De Sacrificus Libri Duo quorum altero Explicantur Omnia Judaeorum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Owtram
Mahomet the Imposter https://books.google.com/books?id=DLhaAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks
Vauxhall gardens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Gardens
Promenade Hyde Park http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/hydepark.htm
Duke of Beaufort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Beaufort
St. George’s Hanover Square http://www.stgeorgeshanoversquare.org/
St. Clements http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/39885-st-clement-danes-church#FrJQIwKssdclyVG7.97

What’s Coming up? The Fugitive Green chapters 7-9, from Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collection.

The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook

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Previous Episode

Their Course is Set AFG Ep 91

With this podcast episode, "Their Course is Set", we delve into the brand-new novella by Diana Gabaldon, A Fugitive Green. It is one of seven novellas within the recently released Seven Stones to Stand or Fall. This novella features the stories of Minerva Wattiswade aka Minnie Rennie and Harold "Hal" Grey, Lord Melton/Duke of Pardloe, and how they came to be the dynamic and fascinating long wed couple we meet in the Outlander series and other novellas. I hope you enjoy the six to eight-part podcast series.

Minnie Rennie, daughter of book and information dealer Andrew Rennie, finds herself going to London alone in the spring of 1744. She is there to do work for her father, find her mother whom she's never met, and make social connections.

Due to her unconventional upbringing, she's a worldly, savvy, clever, and self-assured young woman of 17-years. She's been working in her father's business her whole life. She's never met her mother. Our Claire also had an unconventional upbringing after the death of her parents. This seems to be a building block for strong and culturally challenging women. London is not a safe place for a single young woman. Her father has set-up two bodyguards (the O'Higgins'), and a safe place to stay. He's also arranged for a marriage broker to get her in to society and find her a proper Englishman to wed. This was a surprise to Minnie and she is impressed by her father's trap.

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Hal on the other hand is an absolute mess. His life is in turmoil after the death of his wife Esme and child during a too early labor, he kills Nathaniel Twelvetrees in a duel for having an affair with his wife Esme, and the continuing shadow left from his father's suicide on the eve of being arrested for being a Jacobite and traitor to the Crown. Hal is in his early twenties, but he's lived a lifetime already. He's emotionally fragile and physically unwell. He's also the target of a job meant for Minnie.

This takes place during Dragonfly in Amber when Jamie and Claire Fraser are in Paris post Wentworth and pre-Jacobite uprising. We meet some familair and new characters along the way.

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Here are the links I promised for what I found extra interesting within the pages of these first chapters.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches - Frederick the roach presumable for the Bonnie Prince to give to Louise his mistress.
Culpeper's Herbal - in some form this has been in print since 1653
Persian Letters - the book Jamie purchased from Andrew Rennie
Collected Sermons of the Reverend George V. Sykes - it is a real book, written by Diana Gabaldon's great-great grandfather.

What's Coming up? The Fugitive Green chapters 4-6, from Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collection.

The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.

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Next Episode

Forgiveness AFG 93

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

A Fugitive Green podcast series

Chapters 7-9

This episode, "Forgiveness," centers around Minnie learning the truths about her mother. It's a painful and sad story of how her mother came to be sequestered under the care of a family in the country. She learns the meaning of the hours and prays alongside her mother. Minnie shows utmost grace and love toward her mother, even knwoing she can never have the one thing she hoped to gain, the assurity of her mother's love. With the wisdom and forbearance of a much older woman, Minnie extends her forgiveness before she leaves that day.

Prie-Dieu

Hal must excise his own demons. He must begin to heal and this means going back to normal behaviors, such as sleeping in a bed, at night. He's takes stock of his home, of the fourteen rooms he has refused to sleep in during the night hours. He recalls staying up all night since Esme's death, either in the library reading or walking in Hyde Park, even sharing time with the homeless by their fires. He collects himself and with determination, enters Esme's chamber. He puts on the perfume he had made for her. This springs her to life inside the room. It is the two of them together. He weeps. He grieves. He asks her forgiveness. He sleeps.

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