("But wait, wasn't Archie really Bracegirdle in the books?")
Ah! No! Midshipman Kennedy does get mentioned twice on the Indefatigable in Midshipman Hornblower. In Chapter 4, he and Hornblower play at courtly manners while he delivers a message to Hornblower about how Pellew would like to see him, and he also appears briefly in chapter 6.
Where'd you find Pellew's dispatches, out of curiosity?
I started searching google books. It helps if you search Exmouth instead of Pellew, actually.
I think I officially know too much about the historical Pellew to properly enjoy fanfiction about him anymore; I keep shouting at the screen that they got the name of his wife wrong and oh by the way his first kid was a daughter and um.
I would really love for someone to write me the story of why Pellew's first son's name is Pownoll Bastard Pellew. I mean, I know that the first name was the name of the first captain Pellew served under; but that middle name begs for story. (And! Oh! Pownoll would not have been Hornblower's contemporary, quite, he was about 10 years younger, but he was a midshipman on his father's ship when he was 12: I am pretty sure Hornblower should have met him. And oh, what Hornblower might have thought about his dear captain when he learned what nepotism happened there--for Pownoll did not spend the full amount of time in grade before receiving *cough* certain promotions.)
It's hard to keep my personal canon sorted straight, because when I read about Pellew, I realize how much Hornblower's story is based on Pellew's life, and so I am always choosing which bits I am incorporating into my fictional view of Pellew and which I am absconding with for Hornblower.
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Ah! No! Midshipman Kennedy does get mentioned twice on the Indefatigable in Midshipman Hornblower. In Chapter 4, he and Hornblower play at courtly manners while he delivers a message to Hornblower about how Pellew would like to see him, and he also appears briefly in chapter 6.
Where'd you find Pellew's dispatches, out of curiosity?
I started searching google books. It helps if you search Exmouth instead of Pellew, actually.
I think I officially know too much about the historical Pellew to properly enjoy fanfiction about him anymore; I keep shouting at the screen that they got the name of his wife wrong and oh by the way his first kid was a daughter and um.
I would really love for someone to write me the story of why Pellew's first son's name is Pownoll Bastard Pellew. I mean, I know that the first name was the name of the first captain Pellew served under; but that middle name begs for story. (And! Oh! Pownoll would not have been Hornblower's contemporary, quite, he was about 10 years younger, but he was a midshipman on his father's ship when he was 12: I am pretty sure Hornblower should have met him. And oh, what Hornblower might have thought about his dear captain when he learned what nepotism happened there--for Pownoll did not spend the full amount of time in grade before receiving *cough* certain promotions.)
It's hard to keep my personal canon sorted straight, because when I read about Pellew, I realize how much Hornblower's story is based on Pellew's life, and so I am always choosing which bits I am incorporating into my fictional view of Pellew and which I am absconding with for Hornblower.