Author’s Note
Several passages from Sermons to Young Women by James Fordyce are quoted in this novel, as are passages from the erotic novel Fanny Hill; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland. Both Fanny Hill and Sermons to Young Women were first published in England in the 1700s.
The line of poetry quoted in the first chapter is from Samela, by the sixteenth century writer Robert Greene.
Edward’s experiences at Waterloo are partly based on a letter by Private Thomas Hasker, First King’s Dragoon Guards, and to a lesser extent on the journal of Sergeant Archibald Johnston, Second Regiment of Dragoons. Both men fought at Waterloo, and their writings are some of many letters and journal entries that form The Waterloo Archive; Volume I: British Sources, edited by Gareth Glover (Front
