Crossover Cover: Growing Up

 

Are you an Alexandre Dumas fan?

Then you'll love this novel by Angela Thirkell set in Anthony Trollope's English county of Barsetshire, which has a reference to the Count of Monte Cristo, among other crossovers!

For more information, be sure to purchase my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Peace Breaks Out

 

In this novel set in Barsetshire, the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office is mentioned, as is the county of Loamshire.

Barsetshire is from Anthony Trollope's The Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Tape and Sealing-Wax Office is from the works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Loamshire is from the works of George Eliot.

This crossover is one of over a thousand covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Enter Sir Robert

 

A resemblance is noted between Mr. Scratcherd’s studio and Mr. Krook’s Rag and Bottle Warehouse near Lincoln’s Inn. There is also a reference to “those depressed hangers-on of titled families, like the Bonds’ old cousin the Honorable Juliana Starter, youngest of old Lord Mickleham’s eighteen children and formerly Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Louisa Christina, daughter of Prince Louis of Cobalt and one of the Hatz-Reinigens; or, to compare small things with great, Miss Volumnia Dedlock: only neither of these ladies had families to complicate their lives, not being married.” Sir Robert Graham belonged to a Dining Society at Oxford that also included “that young Lord Lundy who became Governor of New South Wales later.” Like Thirkell's other novels, this book is set in the titular locale of Anthony Trollope's The Chronicles of Barsetshire. Mr. Krook and Volumnia Dedlock are from Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. Dickens’ novel is also mentioned as a real book here, but we can assume it’s based on a true story, particularly since Thirkell has crossover references to it in some of her other novels. Lord Mickleham is from Anthony Hope’s The Dolly Dialogues. Lord Lundy is the title character of a poem in Hillaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children.

This crossover is one of over a thousand included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2! 

Crossover Cover: Private Enterprise

 

In this novel set in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire, the Cedars, Muswell Hill, is mentioned, as are the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office and Loamshire. The Cedars is from Hilaire Belloc's poem "Charles Augustus Fortescue," included in Cautionary Tales for Children. The Tape and Sealing-Wax Office is from the works of William Makepeace Thackeray. The county of Loamshire is the setting of three novels by George Eliot.

This crossover is one of over a thousand covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Cheerfulness Breaks In

 

Are you a Compton Mackenzie fan?

Then you'll love this novel set in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire that has a reference to one of Mackenzie's books!

For more information, be sure to purchase my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: The Duke's Daughter

 

In this novel set in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, Tom Grantly goes to work for the Red Tape and Sealing Wax Dept. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.M.G., grandson of the well-known First Lord of the Admiralty, is mentioned, as is the county of Loamshire. The Tape and Sealing-Wax Office is from the works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Sir Joseph Porter is the grandson of the character of the same name in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore. The fictional English county of Loamshire is from George Eliot’s Adam Bede, Felix Holt, and Middlemarch. The fictional Loamshire Regiment appears in several works, including H. C. “Sapper” McNeile’s Bulldog Drummond novels, Evelyn Waugh’s Put Out More Flags and Men at Arms, and the movie The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Before Lunch

 

Sir Ogilvy Hibberd, who seeks to buy Pooker’s Piece in Barsetshire, lives in “The Cedars,” Muswell Hill, which had come into the market on the death of Mrs. C. Augustus Fortescue (Fifi), only child and heiress of Bunyan, First Baron Alberfylde. Mrs. Starter is the daughter of Lord Mickleham. Like many of Thirkell’s books, this novel is set in the titular locale from Anthony Trollope’s The Chronicles of Barsetshire series. The Cedars, Charles Augustus Fortescue, Fifi, and Bunyan, First Lord Alberfylde are from the poem “Charles Augustus Fortescue,” included in Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children. Lord Mickleham is from Anthony Hope’s The Dolly Dialogues.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Love at All Ages

 

Are you a fan of Sir Walter Scott?

Then you'll love this novel, set in Anthony Trollope's English county of Barshetshire, which has a nod to Ivanhoe, among others!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Miss Bunting

 

In this novel by Angela Thirkell, set like many of her works in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire, Dr. Dale, the rector of Hallbury in Barsetshire, asks Bishop Joram if he worked in Borrioboola-Gha, but Joram says it was Mngangaland. Borrioboola-Gha is from Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Happy Returns

 

Are you an Anthony Trollope fan?

Then you'll love this novel by Angela Thirkell, one of many by her set in Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, which has references to Anthony Hope's The Dolly Dialogues and Henry Kingsley's Ravenshoe!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: A Double Affair

 

Are you a fan of George du Maurier's fiction?

Then you'll love this novel by Angela Thirkell, taking place in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, which has a reference to du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Old Bank House

 

In this novel by Angela Thirkell set in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, the Times runs correspondence about the need for a College of Empire Economics in Borrioboola-Gha, from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Northbridge Rectory

 

Captain Powell-Jones, an officer in the Barsetshires and expert on Welsh languages, eats his food and thinks but poorly of a place where no one has probably heard of Morgan ap Kerrig, or Crumlinwallinwer, or Mewlinwillinwodd. Sir Alwyn Talbot is the ex-Principal of the Board of Tape and Sealing Wax. Barsetshire, the setting of many of Thirkell’s novels, is from the works of Anthony Trollope. Morgan ap Kerrig, Crumlinwallinwer, and Mewlinwillinwodd are mentioned in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. The Tape and Sealing-Wax Office appears in four books by William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair, The Newcomes, The Bedford Row Conspiracy, and The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Much like the first two volumes, this one is an official and AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Pomfret Towers

 

Are you a fan of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray?

Then you'll love this novel, part of a series by Angela Thirkell set in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, that has a crossover nod to Thackeray's The History of Pendennis!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: August Folly

 

Richard Tebben is spending his summer vacation from Oxford at his family home in Barsetshire. Mr. Fanshawe is the Dean of St. Paul’s College, Oxford: “As everyone knows, Paul’s is famous for the great row or disturbance which took place shortly before the Crimean War, in consequence of which row Charles Ravenshoe, a gentleman of good family in the West, was rusticated for a year.” Sparrow, the butler of the Palmer family, smokes Junior Whifflets. Angela Thirkell wrote many novels set in the fictional English county seen in Anthony Trollope’s The Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, which are in the CU through The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, among other works. Many of Thirkell’s novels feature descendants of Trollope’s characters. St. Paul’s College and Charles Ravenshoe are from Henry Kingsley’s novel Ravenshoe. St. Paul’s is mentioned in several of Thirkell’s novels. Whifflets cigarettes are from Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey novel Murder Must Advertise.

This crossover, and hundreds more (including several other Barsetshire novels by Thirkell), will be covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this tome is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's invaluable resources Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!