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[muckefuck]

Scythia Enfield Fritter Bradshaw (1830-1863)

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[caprinus.livejournal.com]

Without looking anything up, I imagine the daughter of impoverished noble, a cavalry-man in the employ of the British East India Company, born in a bungalow in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces and thereafter dead of consumption. Possibly by a tiger. With very little in between. She wrote two books of poetry and an atrocious translation of Kalidasa.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

A Virginian, eh? Well, I got her gender right, at least. ;_;

[febrile.livejournal.com]

In the billiard room, with the candlestick.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Damn, Scythia (land of the blood-drinking horse barbarians) Enfield (Lee- or Harry, both pretty special) and Fritter (-ware or apple-) are genius. Too bad I didn't get this in time to burden my daughter with it.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

I thought of the Enfield connection, but I think the dates are wrong for it.

So what did you burden her with instead?

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Katarina. Contra my father in law's request, we felt that Ekaterina was going to be pushing it for a kid growing up in rural NY, with that initial E.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

I think guns have been made with the Enfield mark since the end of the Napoleonic wars, but I wasn't really thinking about chronology (Harry Enfield definitely wouldn't have bothered our Scythia during her lifetime).