The Lady Julian
An English ship
What code writing secrets would Beatrix Potter
transcribe from an untutored man’s memory?
How extraordinary that his lost love
from this cargo of 237 female convicts
should keep him company at sea.
The floating brothel is a true story
of destitute women
set aside by society,
then banished to Australia.
I came by my first selection by the prescribed method. Here is the prompt:
However, a book about Gunpowder and Beatrix Potter wasn’t working for me. I remembered this other book of outstanding scholarship.
“The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts” by Sian Rees.
“The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897. Transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder.”
Thanks to Justin Deming for this fun and rewarding prompt!
