Newton’s Niece

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Derek Beaven. Newton’s Niece

Dedication

Contents

Dross

A Chymical Toilet

The Tower of Bedlam

The Lull

First Things

Things Whereof a Man Cannot Speak

The Portrait

Love’s Limbeck

Projection

A Shift

His Creation

Pawnee

Mirage

The Suitor

Balance of Power

Mirror

Ruth

Light, Sound and Heat

Emotional Research

Localised Interference

Bonfire Night

Bracegirdle

Conjunction

The Collection

A View

Chocolate with my Enemy

Abel Slaughter

Athene

Moth

Inertia

Double Vision

Swift

People on Paper

Special Licence

Nicolini

Lovers

Orpheus

After

Hessy

Gerusalemme Liberata, 1711

New Women

Arcadia

The Bump

New Models

Sunbathing

Crackenthorpe

Oscillation

Madonnella

Letters

Hester Vanhomrigh

Scene Change

Observations of Restraint

The Boy

Home Truths

The Demon

The Platonick Lady

The Coup

An Academy of One

The Message

Transmutation

Acknowledgements

Notes on people and places

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Newton’s Niece

DEREK BEAVEN

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‘Etta was a bird,’ Pawnee said, thoughtfully. Her skirts rustled. She was dressed now in normal clothes; the native rig was just for the surprise. ‘A beautiful crow with dark shiny feathers. She flew high above the forest looking for babies and earrings, until there was a great fire, and the forest went away. Then she flew higher and higher. Edmund too was a crow. He found her in the tent of the sun; her wings were bleeding. Dark, dark blood. There were two drops. One was me and one was Kit.’

‘What’s so difficult for you, Kit?’ said Etta. ‘Are you talking about Charles Montagu?’

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