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: 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 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: Trilby

 

In this novel by George du Maurier, Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies, the Mall, Chiswick is mentioned. Trilby O’Ferrall is related to the Duchess of Towers. Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies is from William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Many if not all of Thackeray’s novels are connected by recurring characters and families. The Duchess of Towers is from du Maurier’s Peter Ibbetson. 

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! Much like the first two, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion 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: Appleby at Allington (aka Death by Water)

 

Are you a fan of Michael Innes' Sir John Appleby mysteries?

Then you'll love this novel, which has nods to William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair and D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl!

For more information, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Like the first two volumes, this one is an 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!