Yes, pre-Wimbledon. Dr. Arnold gets mentioned quite a bit in Tom Brown, I think. Thanks for the info; this really is going to be a big help! :D
I've been writing Spike's personal history (my fanon version of it at any rate), and I had developed background information on his father's side of the family- declining landed gentry with a military background (a couple of Sir So-and-Sos of no major acclaim or distinction) leading towards Spike's father (a bit of a foppish literary type who starts out as a lecturer bachelor out of Oxford and later becomes a junior classics master for a public school before moving onto a post back at Oxford)... which may be a little bit too modern (and too American) of an idea to really fit the period or the social level Spike's family might have been at. I've been slowly dissecting all the objects in the family parlor plus William's dialogue with his mother in LMPTM to try and suss out details (details that probably never occurred to the writers or the prop people). We all know how fun that can be. XD
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Date: 2012-02-20 01:44 am (UTC)I've been writing Spike's personal history (my fanon version of it at any rate), and I had developed background information on his father's side of the family- declining landed gentry with a military background (a couple of Sir So-and-Sos of no major acclaim or distinction) leading towards Spike's father (a bit of a foppish literary type who starts out as a lecturer bachelor out of Oxford and later becomes a junior classics master for a public school before moving onto a post back at Oxford)... which may be a little bit too modern (and too American) of an idea to really fit the period or the social level Spike's family might have been at. I've been slowly dissecting all the objects in the family parlor plus William's dialogue with his mother in LMPTM to try and suss out details (details that probably never occurred to the writers or the prop people). We all know how fun that can be. XD