crimean war, 1853-1856

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.

Catherine Carreg longs to escape her monotonous life in Wales, and, with the help of her friend Deio, runs away to London, where she volunteers as a nurse and is thrown into a living nightmare amid the chaos of war.

Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England.

Myrtle, a foundling raised in the Hardy household; Pompey Jones, a street boy who becomes a photographer's assistant; and the pompous, melancholy Dr. Potter, comment on the hidden life of Master George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer who meets his end on the field of battle in 1854.

A historical overview of the events leading up to, during, and after the Crimean War.