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DYNASTY 29
THE BURNING ROSES
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DYNASTY 30
THE MEASURE OF DAYS
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About the Morland Dynasty - the longest-running historical family saga ever!

“FROM the Wars of the Roses to Queen Victoria’s long reign, England’s history is the rich background to the Morland Dynasty. Morland Place in Yorkshire is the cradle of the dynasty, but war and famine, peace and plenty, love and loyalty, greed and envy spread the lines of the family throughout the country – into the courts of kings and the salons of the Regency, onto the battlefields of Culloden and the Crimea, into the slums surrounding the cotton mills and along the raw permanent ways. Through the centuries the Morlands feud and reconcile themselves, they bloom in times of fortune and shoulder the privations of poverty with stoicism, and their story brings the vivid history of their times to life with extraordinary brilliance.” (Publisher's press release)

 

THE MORLAND DYNASTY books in order:

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1 - THE FOUNDING Begins: 1434
  Period: Wars of the Roses; Richard III

Seeking power and prestige, grim, ambitious Yorkshireman Edward Morland arranges a marriage between his meek son Robert and spirited Eleanor, young ward of the influential Beaufort family. Eleanor is appalled at being forced to marry a mere ‘sheep farmer’; she is, besides, secretly in love with Richard, Duke of York. Yet in time this apparently ill-matched union becomes both passionate and tender, the foundation of the Morland ‘dynasty’, and sustains them through bloody civil war which so often divides families, sets neighbour against neighbour, and brings tragedy close to home.
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2 - THE DARK ROSE Begins: 1501
  Period: Henry VIII

Paul, great grandson of Eleanor Morland, has inherited the estate and has a son to follow him. But he fathers an illegitimate boy by his beloved mistress, and bitter jealously between the half-brothers causes a destructive rift that leads to tragedy. Paul’s niece Nanette becomes maid-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, and at the court of Henry VIII witnesses at first hand the events leading up to the rift with Rome, her mistress’s execution, and the further efforts of the sad, ailing king to secure the male succession.
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3 - THE PRINCELING Begins: 1558  
  Period: Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots   

Protestantism is sweeping the land and threatens the position of the Catholic Morlands, so they must seek new spheres of influence. John, the heir, rides north to the untamed Borderlands to wed the daughter of Black Will Percy, Northumberland cattle lord. But he finds he must first prove himself, and win her heart through blood and battle. John’s gentle sister Lettice is given in marriage to the ruthless Scottish baron, Lord Robert Hamilton, and in the treacherous court of Mary, Queen of Scots, she learns the fierce lessons of survival.
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4 - THE OAK APPLE Begins: 1630  
  Period: Charles I, the Civil War   

When civil war destroys the long years of peace in England, the clash between King and Parliament is echoed at Morland Place. Richard, the heir, brings home a Puritan bride, while his dashing brother Kit joins the Royalist cavalry under prince Rupert, leaving their father, Edmund, desperately trying to steer a middle course.  As the war grinds on, bitterness replaces early fervour and divisions grow deeper, and through it all Edmund struggles grimly to protect his inheritance and keep Morland Place intact.
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5 - THE BLACK PEARL Begins: 1659
  Period: Charles II, the Restoration  

The bleak years of Cromwell’s Protectorate are drawing to a close. Civil war and its aftermath have left Morland Place in bad case, but with the return of the king, Ralph, the master, believes he can rebuild its fortunes.  For his beautiful and ambitious cousin Annunciata it means a journey to London where, embroiled in the amours and intrigues of Charles’s Court, she makes her fortune and at last unlocks the secret of her past.  A kinder age is dawning, but still uncertainty, conflict and sorrow await both Ralph and Annunciata before they can find peace and forgiveness.  
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6 - THE LONG SHADOW Begins:1670
  Period: Charles II, James II

Morland Place has flourished under Ralph’s stewardship, while Annunciata is a great lady of the Court. Splendid futures seem to be promised for her children; but the religious rift opened by Henry VIII has never been fully healed, and conflict resurfaces at the accession of the Catholic James II. Frightening times ensue, when it is impossible to know who to trust. Annunciata herself is put on trial, while jealousy, betrayal and sudden death threaten her family. And in the shadow of revolution comes a new love to Annunciata, one that can only lead to tragedy.
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7 - THE CHEVALIER Begins: 1689
  Period: William and Mary, Queen Anne, George I, the Old Pretender (1715 Rebellion)

Annunciata, fiercely loyal to the Stuart cause, follows King James II into exile, leaving her gentle grandson Matt to care for Morland Place. In her absence he contracts an unwise marriage with India Neville, a woman as heartless as she is beautiful, who drives him between the extremes of passionate love and deep despair. When James III – the Chevalier – returns to claim the Stuart throne, the Morlands are reunited in one country. The rebellion fails, and Annuniciata’s sons are on trial for their lives, but defeat and even death itself cannot conquer the Morland sprit.
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8 - THE MAIDEN Begins: 1720  
  Period: George I, George II, the Young Pretender (Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1745 Rebellion)   

Political intrigue is rife as the Stuart-Hanoverian struggle continues. Jemmy, heir to Morland Place, contracts a dutiful marriage to the chilly Lady Mary in order to secure Hanoverian protection and safeguard his inheritance. Morland lives are riven by the ’45 rebellion and the bloody massacre at Culloden, and at their lowest point, their fortunes rest in the small hands of Jemmy’s daughter Jemima. Intelligent and single-minded, Jemima proves a capable caretaker of the Morland heritage, and although Morland Place and its lands suffer from the excesses of her dissolute husband, her quiet courage earns her an abiding love and loyalty.
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9 - THE FLOOD-TIDE Begins: 1772  
  Period: George III, American War of Independence, Enclosures  

England is peaceful under George III, and Morland Place flourishes under the careful tending of Jemima and her loyal husband Allen. Their seven children often bring them heartache, but they are sustained by their love for each other and their absorbing interest in improving the estate lands. But beyond England’s shores things are not so calm. Morland cousins find themselves embroiled in the American war for independence, and the family’s bastard offshoot, Henri, disports himself in the salons of Paris while outside revolution creeps closer.
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10 - THE TANGLED THREAD Begins: 1788  
  Period: The French Revolution; beginning of Industrial Revolution   

In France, as the revolution begins, Henri, the bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his family. He binds his daughter Heloise in loveless marriage to a Revolutionary, and allies himself with the vigorous Danton. But in the bloodbath of the Terror and the fall of Danton, Henri goes to the guillotine and Heloise flees to England where she is welcomed warmly by the Morland family. In Yorkshire Jemima’s troublesome brood cause her anxiety – especially her youngest, Lucy, who disguises herself as a boy and runs away to sea - but at last she sees three of her children marry and the hope of an heir to Morland Place.
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11 - THE EMPEROR Begins: 1795  
  Period: Rise of Napoleon

The shadow of Napoleon is falling across Europe, and a restlessness seems to be changing mores and loosening society’s restraints. At Morland Place James’s marriage to Mary Ann is falling apart; Lucy’s to Chetwyn is in the balance as she embarks on a blatant affair with a sea officer; and William supports a mistress he cannot marry. Mary goes to sea with her husband Captain Haworth and is caught up in the battle of the Nile; and as war becomes inevitable, Lucy knows she must say goodbye to her love as every fighting captain waits eagerly for his commission.  
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12 - THE VICTORY Begins: 1803
  Period: The Regency; Beau Brummell; Industrial Revolution; Battle of Trafalgar   

Lucy’s lover Weston, and Mary’s husband Haworth, are both sea-officers involved with the naval blockade. James’s wife, Mary Ann, sees for herself the grim realities of life in the slums of plague-torn Manchester. And while Lucy enjoys the frivolities of Regency London, her neglected husband Chetwyn seeks comfort in a quarter which will bring him disgrace and ruin.
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13 - THE REGENCY Begins:1807
  Period: the Napoleonic Wars; the Peninsular Campaign; the Industrial Revolution  

As armies march and counter-march across Europe, Lucy, trying to rebuild her life after the death of Captain Weston, receives an unexpected and disturbing offer of marriage from an army officer. James and Heloise are happy at Morland Place, except for the hostility of James’s daughter and heiress Fanny towards her stepmother. Fanny is eager to inherit more than just Morland Place, and visits her maternal grandfather in Manchester in the hope of persuading him to leave her his cotton mills. But for all her hard-headedness, she falls in love with the dashing but unscrupulous Lieutenant Hawker, and her determination to marry him threatens disaster.
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14 - THE CAMPAIGNERS Begins:1815
  Period: the campaign of the 100 Days and the Battle of Waterloo  

Napoleon’s escape from Elba has convulsed Europe. The Allied Army is gathered in Flanders, and where the Army is, the fashionable world must follow. So Lucy and Heloise both take their daughters to Brussels for the most exhilarating Season ever. Romance flourishes in the warlike atmosphere. Rosamund must finally come to terms with her feelings for her cousin Marcus; Sophie meets an enigmatic French major who may change her future; and Heloise renews acquaintance with a former suitor. The looming shadow of battle only makes the dancers whirl more feverishly, but when the army marches out to face the might of the French at Waterloo, one question is in every heart: which of them will not come back?
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15 - THE RECKONING Begins:1816
  Period: Post war slump; Chartism; Pentrich Revolution; industrial progress   

Napoleon has been defeated at last, but victory brings no peace to England. The cost of war has been devastating. Inflation rages, bankruptcies multiply, and many of the ruined flee to the continent, including that symbol of the age just past, Beau Brummell. Discharged soldiers swell the ranks of the unemployed, wages tumble and the bread price soars. It is a tinderbox which takes only a spark to flame into riot. James and Heloise stand guard over Morland Place, but a tragic accident takes the one person they depend on. A devastating scandal brings the Morland name into the glare of public notoriety with a trial in the House of Lords. And Sophie and Rosamund each have to learn the difference between real love and its enticing but dangerous illusion.
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16 - THE DEVIL’S HORSE Begins: 1820
  Period: George IV;  the factory age; the Rainhill Trials; Liverpool and Manchester Railway   

The landscape of England is undergoing sweeping change as the country pioneers the steam-driven machine age. In Manchester, Sophie and Jasper face violent opposition to their plans for rehousing factory hands; Lucy brings her sons home from their Grand Tour, brimming with ideas for their future; and Rosamund enters a bizarre agreement with her husband, with tragic consequences. And at Morland Place two brothers grow up with very different tastes and an unspoken rivalry.
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17 - THE POISON TREE Begins: 1831  
  Period: William IV; 1832 Reform Act; the railway pioneers   

As England emerges from the post-war depression, the country is changing, and the birth-pangs of a new age brink it to the brink of revolution. Violent times breed violent acts. Sophie’s life is shattered by a hideous crime. Morland Place falls into chaos as Heloise removes her hand from the reins. Benedict is forced to leave home and makes a life among the railway pioneers, leaving Nicholas free to indulge the dark side of his nature. And amongst them all stalks the deadly invisible threat of cholera.  
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18 - THE ABYSS Begins: 1833  
  Period: William IV, Victoria; the Railway Age; George Hudson   

The industrial age is sweeping through England and the Stephensons are planning the greatest engineering scheme ever undertaken – a railway line from Liverpool to London. At Morland Place, Nicholas had hoped that his brother Benedict had been banished for ever. But railway fever brings Benedict back to York as an engineer on the Leeds & Selby line.  When plans are formed to bring the railway to York, Nicholas not only fears his brother may steal his inheritance, but that the iron horse will destroy the very Morland lands. The conflict between the brothers mirrors the nation’s battle between old and new.
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19 - THE HIDDEN SHORE Begins: 1843
  Period: the  early Victorian Age; Philanthropy   

When Charlotte’s father dies she believes herself to be destitute. But a lawyer’s letter reveals she is not only a part of the Morland family, but wealthy and a countess in her own right. She is expected to make a great marriage, and with her vivacious cousin Fanny at her side she is launched into her first Season. It is Fanny, the hardened flirt, who loses her heart first, while Charlotte catches the eye of Oliver Fleetwood, the most eligible man in London. But the Season ends in disillusion, and Charlotte turns away from the life of idle amusement in search of something more substantial, though it involves flouting convention.
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20 - THE WINTER JOURNEY Begins: 1851  
  Period: the Mid-Victorian Age; The Great Exhibition; the Crimean War   

The Great Exhibition brings all the Morlands to London – including a cousin from America. Charlotte is using her wealth and social position to build a hospital, and, aware of how badly sick people are nursed, defies convention to train a team of female nurses. When the Crimean war begins, and her brother Cavendish departs with his cavalry regiment and her husband is called on to serve with the Intelligence Department, Charlotte goes too. Not all the soldiers’ courage or high spirits can save them from the brutal horrors of war, and as the bitter Russian winter sets in, Charlotte’s nursing skills are desperately needed as the army falls victim to cholera, dysentry, frostbite and gangrene.
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21 - THE OUTCAST Begins 1857  
  Period: The American Civil War; the Divorce Act; the first Underground Railway   

At Morland Place, Benedict’s peaceful life is overset when a mysterious orphan arrives. No-one can understand why he takes this waif into the household, but the strain his arrival causes forces Benedict to take the boy to America, to join his much-missed daughter Mary. There Benedict becomes enamoured of the Southern way of life, just as bitter civil war is about to destroy it forever.
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22 - THE MIRAGE Begins: 1870  
  Period: High Victorian Age; Franco-Prussian War; changes to medical training

George inherits Morland Place just before his majority, and though he believes himself more than equal to the challenge, he falls victim to the penniless but determined Miss Turlingham. He marries her against advice, and embarks on a spending spree the estate cannot afford to satisfy his new bride. In London, Charlotte’s daughter Venetia, inspired by what she witnessed in Berlin during the Franco-Prussian war, is determined to become a doctor. But society is not ready to let women join the profession, and her struggle seems doomed to failure.  
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23 - THE CAUSE Begins: 1874  
  Period: High Victorian; women’s rights

Venetia is on the brink of marrying Lord Hazelmere when she discovers he does not mean to allow her to continue training as a doctor. She calls the wedding off, and from being the talk of the Season becomes the scandal of the year. Estranged from family and friends, she needs all her determination to continue the fight. At Morland place George and Alfreda continue to spend on grandiose building schemes despite the threat of  bankruptcy; while Henrietta’s cold marriage to the ascetic Rector of Bishopthorpe brings her close to questioning her religion.

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24 - THE HOMECOMING Begins: 1885
  Period: Late Victorian; Oscar Wilde; Prince of Wales's Set; Girls' Education

With the death of her rector husband Henrietta is finally free to marry her love, the wealthy and handsome Jerome Compton. But Victorian propriety disapproves of Jerome’s divorced status, and the couple are forced to seek anonymity in London. Henrietta finds she takes to urban life with great enjoyment, and she meets and becomes close to her cousin, Lady Venetia. Initially shunned for pursuing her medical career, Venetia is now a respected doctor, while her marriage to “Beauty” Hazelmere has redeemed her socially, and she finds herself drawn into the elite circle of Bertie, Prince of Wales. But while the cousins both thrive, storm clouds are gathering, and one of them will be forced out of society and into exile…
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25 - THE QUESTION Begins: 1898
  Period: Late Victorian/Edwardian; Boer War; Motor Cars; Suffragettes

On the brink of a new century, the great stability of Victorian England is under threat. Europe is dividing into armed camps, while at home socialism and the suffragette movement challenge traditional values. At Morland Place, Teddy begins to restore the estate to its former glory, while his sister Henrietta’s family fill the house with life, and nephew Bertie finds a haven from the strictures of his own home. As Victoria’s reign draws to a close, war with the Boers becomes inevitable. Young men volunteer in droves, among them Henrietta’s beloved ‘extra son’ Bertie. The Tommies march off singing, eager for a scrap; but what horrors will face them under the burning South African sun, and which of them will come marching home again?
 

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26 - THE DREAM KINGDOM Begins: 1908

Period: Edwardian; Aviation

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In the height of Edwardian splendour, Jessie and Violet share a sparkling London debut. At Morland Place, Teddy's business is expanding and he brings home a new wife, to the anxiety of his sister Henrietta who knows there can't be two mistresses of the house. England is a land of confidence and opportunity but below the surface troubles are stirring. The death of the King brings to a head the constitutional crisis, while abroad the flexing of Russian and German might are an ominous sign of the dangers that lie ahead.
 

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27 - THE RESTLESS SEA Begins: 1912

Period: George V; Titanic; Cat and Mouse Act
The Restless Sea

England still conducts herself with Edwardian confidence; but beneath the surface cracks are breaking society apart. Socialism, strikes and riots, social unrest, and then the disasters of the Titanic and Captain Scott shake the ordered world. Among the Morlands, Jessie and Violet struggle to adapt to the demands of married life; Jack, unlucky in love, designs aeroplanes and trains pilots for the new Royal Flying Corps; and Anne, as the struggle for the Vote becomes more violent, takes comfort in the friendship of an unusual young woman. Meanwhile, the war no-one wants comes ever closer…

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28 - THE WHITE ROAD Begins: 1914

Period: Beginning of WW1
The White Road

The outbreak of war is greeted with euphoria. Thousands flock to volunteer. Everyone believes the war will be over by Christmas, so there’s no time to waste. Bertie, a reservist, is one of the first to go to France; Jack is invited to join the Royal Flying Corps, and Ned joins one of the new ‘Pals’ units. The brutal reality of Ypres dispels illusion, but only fuels determination, as the war comes home to everyone, in ways they have not expected.

   

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29 - THE BURNING ROSES Begins: 1915
  Period: Continuing WW1
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The euphoria of the first days of the war has faded, but the nation is more determined than ever to win. While the Morland men go overseas, the women play their part at home, but it is a strange and emotional time for all. And with the Eastern Front at stalemate, all now depends on the new offensive on the Western Front at Loos...

   

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30 - THE MEASURE OF DAYS Begins: 1916
  Period: Continuing WW1: The Somme
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The war comes home to the Morlands when Ned is listed Missing at Loos. Violet puts everything at peril by her wild affair with a young artist, and Jessie goes to London to nurse in a military hospital. The quiet spring and summer of 1916 end in the violent eruption of pitched battle on the River Somme, and five Morland men are in the thick of it...

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HOW IT ALL BEGAN

" THE ORIGINAL IDEA for the series was a ‘history without tears’: fictional characters in a real historical background. The plan was for the whole run of British history from the middle ages to the Second World War to be covered in twelve volumes, written alternately by two different writers. This idea almost immediately proved impractical, and I was given the whole twelve.

THE SCHEDULE I was given was of five hundred years broken into sections of thirty to fifty years, with big gaps in between, making sure each chunk contained some interesting historical event or trend. But as the series grew I found myself slipping further and further off schedule. For one thing, I found I wanted to include so much more than had been planned for: not just the kings, battles and Parliaments, but how people lived, what they wore and ate, how they gave birth and died, how they built their houses and related to their servants, how they travelled, what they believed in. And for another thing, the fictional characters took on a life of their own, and many readers became as interested in them as in the history. So the gaps between books got shorter, and the time I covered in each book shrank, but was covered more intensively. The publishers responded to this change by extending the contract beyond twelve, first to seventeen, then twenty, then twenty-five, and now to thirty-four. God bless their commitment!

THE WHOLE SERIES has recently been re-jacketed, in stunning new covers which are illustrated with fine art reproductions from the appropriate period. The books look really good lined up along a shelf, so if you have been thinking of collecting them, now is an excellent time to start! If you are interested in English history - if there are gaps in what you learned at school that you would like to fill – or if you simply enjoy a family saga (and there is no longer one than this anywhere in literature!) then do come and join us at Morland Place."

 

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WHERE IS MORLAND PLACE?

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THE ORIGINS OF MORLAND PLACE  
Of course the Morland family is fictional and their homes are made-up places, but the original Morland home in book one (THE FOUNDING) - Micklelith House - was based on Tretower Court in Wales. Tretower Court is on the A479 just north of the junction with the A40 from Abergavenny to Brecon. For more on Tretower Court, click here.

The Morlands’ new home, built later in THE FOUNDING and named Morland Place, was an amalgam of many places and of none, but perhaps drew most on Beningbrough Hall, just north of York and to the west of the A19. Both places can be visited.

As to the position of this fictional family seat, it is just to the south west of York, between the B1224 Wetherby Road, Askham Lane and Holgate Beck. People who know the area will know that many of the places I mention – Ten Thorn Gap, for instance, Harewood Whin, Hob Moor, Low Field and Bachelor Hill, – are real places, as are most of the streets and buildings I mention in York itself.  The “village” which is referred to from time to time can be supposed to be somewhere between Acomb and Holgate, and the Morland estate at its largest stretched all the way to the river Ouse  just below Redhouse Wood one way and  to Askham Richard the other.

When writing this particular blend of fiction and history, it is always difficult to be specific about where one ends and the other begins. I can only say that anything that is clearly history rather than make-believe is as accurate as I can make it; and that when I use people in my stories who really existed – kings and queens, prime ministers, generals and so on – I use their own words wherever possible, and their own descriptions, or those of people close to them, of their actions and characters.

But please remember that, while I hope the series may help you get a grip on our fascinating history,  it is meant to be entertainment. Please don’t get worked up if you catch me out in a mistake of omission or commission. I’m only human after all.

 

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FAMILY TREE

There have been many requests for publication of a full family tree covering the whole series. I’m afraid this is not practicable. The family tree is far too big and would need special software to access. However, you will now find the family tree for each volume here on the website (See under The Morland Dynasty Books in order) for you to study, refer back to, or download as you please. I hope this helps.

 

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