Saturday, September 22, 2007

Site Contents
1. Introduction
o Prologue
o Bible
o Day Journals
o American Flash
o Discussion Papers
o HPF Correspondence
o Posthumous Documents
o Photograph and Illustration Library

2. The Flashman Family
o Essential Data
§ Bible Flyleaf Entries
§ Family Tree
§ American Flashman – The American descendents of Jack (Flashy’s great grandfather) and Gus Harry (Flashy’s grandfather)
o Deduced Timeline/Chronology of the direct Family’s History - 1740 to 1842 7
o Other relevant ‘unknown’ dates – 1842/1920

3. The Life of HPF –
o Extracts from the Day Journals –
§ “Flashman – part 1” 1839/1840
§ “Flashman – part 2” 1841/43
§ “Flashman’s Mummy” 1846
§ “Flashman’s Irish Jig” 1859/61
§ “Flashman and Honest Abe” – 1862/1865
§ “Flashman’s Oscar” – Part 1 – 1876/80
§ “Flashman and the Gay Gordon” – 1884/85
§ “Flashman and the Ripper”– 1885/92
§ Other Edited Extracts – as and when!
o Detailed (deduced) Geographical Timeline of General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KB etc

4. Discussion Papers/Hypotheses
o When were the Papers (so far published) written?
o The Eagerly Awaited Papers (e.g. Flashman at the Max [1866/1868], Flashman’s Balloon[1868/9], Flashman and the Prussians/Flashman and Red Guiseppe [1870/71], Flashman and the Fuzzy-Wuzzies(1896), Flashman and She, Flashman’s Oscar[1882plus], Flashman in the South Seas, Flashman’s Maple Leaf, Flashman on the…, etc., etc)
o Flashy’s Asides and Riddles (by published Paper)
o People Flashy must also have known
o Confusions/Conundrums within the Papers
o Flashy’s ‘Asides’

5. Documents & Belles Lettres
o HPF’s Correspondence
o Gilbert’s ‘Missive’
o Posthumous Papers

6. Miscellany
o Flashman’s other writings
o The Flashman Songbook
o Flashy’s and Elspeth’s Philanderings

7. Historical Notes of the key events and personalities relevant to the life of Harry Flash – this is huge and not yet done in entirety (and maybe never will be!)

8. The Flashman Photograph and Illustrations library
o Family
o ‘Conquests’
o ‘Friends’ and Acquaintances
o 1839/42
o 1843 to 1915

9. Bibliography

10. Index

2 comments:

Mark said...

Hi Sonia,

Is this a project you are still working on?

I'm really keen to see your work and find out more about any research you have done around the Flashman series.

Many thanks,
Mark

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