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May 13th 1853
Boo sent us the birth announcement card this morning. It read,
Mr and Mrs Bradstone Pitt of Chelsea, London are proud to announce the safe and welcome arrival of their newest baby daughter. She is to be called Angelina Vivienne and will become the perfect younger sister to her brother Bradstone.
Together with some tedious information about when well-wishers can go to visit them, the details of which I cannot recall just at this moment.
I am most hurt and can only believe that Boo was in some form of post-puerperal stupor which rendered her incapable of choosing the names herself. Mr Pitt must have undertaken the task.
Why else would the baby be named Angelina - not Euphemia?
A Victorian wife divides her time between her country estate and smart rooms in London. She is excited, enthusiastic, sociable and utterly unaware of what is happening around her.....
Effie Hatherwick
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Cast of Characters
- Dauncey - Effie's cat
- Effie Hatherwick - our heroine
- Boo Pitt - Effie's Friend
- Josiah Hatherwick - Effie's husband
- Villiers - the Butler
- Brigham Price - Josiah's business partner
- George Waterhouse - Josiah's business partner
- Jennet - the gardener and gamekeeper at Blindingham
- The Girl - young servant with bastard child
- Cook - the cook
- Mrs Doughty - London Socialite
- Little Bradstone (LB) - Boo's baby
- Mrs Everdown - feisty woman from the village
- Mrs Price and Mrs Waterhouse - The Wives
- Ogden Browne - Clacton Hotelier
- Rowena Guiser - London Socialite
- The Old Girl - Effie's servant in Winter 1851
- Assorted staff at Blindingham
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3 comments:
Awwwww........ Now I REALLY feel sorry for her.
It breaks my heart - that would be something that would happen to me.
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