Cast of The Deathly Portent
EXPLANATORY NOTES:
For every book, I have to create a cast list. I usually do this at the start, but add to it as I go along and new characters pop up. As an example, this one is for The Deathly Portent. You can see that every single character has to be put into this. Otherwise I am liable to forget and put the wrong name!
Here you will also find some references to the area. These days, this document contains everything I will need. Cast, places, distances, and snippets of potential plot, plus a list of names I might need to use.
I have 8 documents in my Alphasmart and this one always sits in Document 8. I add to it and every so often update the one on my computer. By the end, I have a complete list of who, what, where, etc.
CAST
TIME: Spring/Summer 1790 – check French goings-on for exact time
Ottilia, Lady Frances Fanshawe, 30 (“Tillie” or “Lady Fan”)
Lord Francis Fanshawe, 33 (“Fan” or “Fanfan”)
Tom and Ben? (Ottilia’s nephews) [her brother is a doctor]
Patrick (brother)
(Diplock (Francis’ valet))
Ryde (Francis’ groom)
Williams (the temporary coachman)
Lady Edingale, Ottilia’s godmother
Charis (Cass or Cassie to Cassandra) (18, saying 20) Armadale, “Mrs Dale”
The Reverend Aidan Kinnerton (27) (son of viscount)
Tabitha (Tabby) Hawes, (32) maid to Cassie (ex Ferrensby household)
Tom Hawes, (35) Tabitha’s husband
Mrs Winkleigh, (50) Aidan’s old nurse, now housekeeper
Croy, Aidan’s groom
Lady Ferrensby, “Aunt Ida” (43) (widow, baroness)
Lord Ferrensby, her son (unmarried, abroad)
Doctor Meldreth, the village doctor
Pilton, the constable
Duggleby, the blacksmith (victim)
Mr Uddington, shop owner (victim) (Henbury’s godson)
Harry Uddington, his son
Pa Wagstaff, Mrs Tisbury’s father
Tisbury, landlord of The Cock and Bottle (sells poultry and eggs as well as wine)
Mrs Molly Tisbury, landlady of Cock and Bottle (victim)
Farmer Staxton, dairy farmer
Will, the Tapster
Bessy, housemaid at Cock
Bertha Duggleby, blacksmith’s widow
Jenny, blacksmith’s daughter
Alice, Beeleigh’s maid
Ned, Duggleby’s young son
Village boys
Mrs Hannah Pakefield, landlady of the inn The Blue Pig
Mr Pakefield, landlord
Patty, maid at Blue Pig
Mr Horace Netherburn, (46) local gentry
Miss Alethea Beeleigh, aged spinster (Evelina’s friend)
Mrs Evelina Radlett, widow (Alethea’s friend)
Lord Henbury, extremely aged widower, local JP (Uddington’s godfather)
Village of Witherley, on River Anker – only claim to fame that it is close to Bosworth Field where Richard III was killed.
Nearest town, west of river, 2 miles – Atherstone
Next biggest, south, 5-6 miles – Nuneaton
Nearest city, south, 14 miles – Coventry
Fanshawes have come from Pipetritt on duty visit to Ottilia’s godmother, now heading for Dowager at Polbrook.
Flitteris, their home is nr Okeham in Rutland (close to Melton Mowbray, hunting country) [NOTE, I changed this when I eventually came to write a story that is partially set in Flitteris.]
