Author’s Note: Perhaps you, like me, resemble Rudyard Kipling’s Elephant’s Child “who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.” If so, you might wonder what flower a kind Prioress in a 13th Century convent would offer a young nun as encouragement, or what Scotswomen of the 15th Century wore instead of a coat, or what an officer on “half pay” from the British Navy was expected to do. Or, maybe you wonder where I found Kipling’s “The Elephant’s Child.” To make these family stories as accurate and realistic as possible, I accessed a lot of information. The full bibliography for Rule! contains more than two hundred references, of which I listed thirty in the book. So, here’s the full list. Though a reference might deal with something as tiny as the availability of daffodils in the 1200’s, these details make up the environments in which the characters live.
It is a wonderful thing to live in a time when information is so readily accessed and cross-referenced.
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