The International Patent Office-which squelches technology and scientific innovation-are after him. She is far from the only person on the trail of the Duchess’s missing brother. Clues lead her to Harry Timpson’s traveling show, the Laboratory of Arcane Wonders. Though she receives many warnings, Elizabeth takes the case.
If she can get enough money, she can return home to the Kingdom and leave the repressing Republic behind. This is just the first time we see Elizabeth having to make a quick change and a quick escape.Įlizabeth is in sore need of money. Their meeting is interrupted by armed men. The Duchess asks Elizabeth to find her missing brother. We meet her as she is meeting (as her brother, Edwin) with the Duchess of Bletchley, from the Kingdom. Or, to be more accurate, she has been disguising herself as a man and pretending to be her own twin in order to make a living. She fled north.ĭuring the five years between her escape to the North and the opening of The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter, Elizabeth has been working as an intelligence gatherer. The Kingdom was home to our protagonist, Elizabeth Barnabas, until a corrupt aristocrat bankrupted her father’s circus and she was sold into indenture to pay off her father’s fabricated debts. In The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter, set about 150 years after the Luddites managed to grind technological advancement to a standstill, the United Kingdom has been split into two countries: the Kingdom of England and South Wales and the Anglo-Scottish Republic. This is the point of divergence in Rod Duncan’s Gas-Lit Empire series. Two hundred years ago, it referred to people who smashed the “ infernal machines” of the Industrial Revolution and followed the fictional Ned Ludd. The word Luddite is now a gentle insult for someone who doesn’t like technology.
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