Flashman's Lady

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The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time... Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next... Wonderful and scandalous."-- Publishers Weekly Selina Flashman - She is Flashman's nineteen-year-old granddaughter. With uncharacteristic sentimentality Flashman is prepared to spend much of his fortune in preserving "Selly's" innocence from the licentious Moran. This proves to be wasted effort when he discovers that she has become one of the Prince of Wales' mistresses. Flashman, from the Flashman papers". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library . Retrieved 3 February 2013. Fraser, George MacDonald (1995). Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-649023-4.

James Brooke - The White Rajah who saves Flashman in Singapore and then takes him to rescue his wife. Flashman is impressed with him despite himself. Cleonie Grouard (aka Mrs Arthur B. Candy), one of "Miss Susie's gels" ( Flashman and the Redskins). With her he had a son, Frank Grouard.A coup is attempted, Flashy and Elspeth make a narrow escape, and manage to get rescued by a handily deployed salvo of British and French warships at just the last second. Agnes Salm-Salm, the American wife of German Prince Felix Salm-Salm, an associate in his doomed attempts to save Maximilian I of Mexico ( Flashman on the March). Suleiman Usman/Solomon Haslam - The society man who went to Eton College is also the notorious pirate whose stronghold is in Borneo. Flashman describes him as "portly, you might say, if not fat, with a fleshy, smiling face, and fine teeth which flashed white against his swarthy skin."

a b c d Reynolds, Stanley (4 January 2008). "Obituary: George MacDonald Fraser: He created Harry Flashman, tormentor of Tom Brown turned comical anti-hero". The Guardian. London. p.34. While in Hong Kong, Flashman is reluctantly persuaded by an English vicar's wife to escort a shipment of opium into Canton; en route he discovers that instead of opium he is carrying guns to the Taiping rebels. He is subsequently put onto the British embassy intelligence staff in Shanghai. He then travels to the mouth of the Peiho to join Lord Elgin's staff for his march to Peking. During the course of the march he is captured by Qing imperial troops and becomes the prisoner and lover of Yehonala, the imperial concubine. He is finally freed when the British army arrives at Peking; he then witnesses the destruction of the imperial Summer Palace. Krueger, Christine L. (2009). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th Century. New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-0870-4.Madame Sabba, his "guide" at the Temple of Heaven, actually the lure in a robbery scheme ( Flashman's Lady, unconsummated).

Flashman in the Great Game". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library . Retrieved 3 February 2013. Comic artist Mike Dorey created the character ‘Cadman the Fighting Coward’ for The Victor (comics) who was based on Flashman. Gerald Cadman, originally of Prince Rupert’s Horse “The Fighting 43rd”, was a cowardly and dishonest officer during the first world war. Like Flashman his cowardice did not stop him from winning many medals, including the Victoria Cross, the DSO, MC and various foreign decorations, none of which he deserved. [22] An editorial piece in the 14 May 2011 edition of The Guardian newspaper on the subject of British Prime Minister David Cameron being labelled a "Flashman" was given a Harry Flashman by-line and was written in the style of Flashman's narrative. [20] urn:lcp:flashmanslady00fras:lcpdf:5749b83f-99ba-4b36-a70f-8b9e758c0cb6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier flashmanslady00fras Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6931kt89 Isbn 0452260809Mike Dorey (10 February 1973). "Cadman the Fighting Coward". mikedorey.co.uk . Retrieved 10 April 2022. George III et al., Arthur Aspinall, ed., The Later Correspondence of George III ( Cambridge University Press, 1962), p. 293 During the course of Fraser's novels, Flashman goes from his expulsion from school into the army. Although he is a coward who tries to run away from any danger, he is involved in many famous military episodes from the 19th century, often taking actions that cause or affect subsequent events, such as his flatulence affecting the Charge of the Light Brigade, [a] or being the person who probably shot George Armstrong Custer. When circumstances run against him and he is forced to fight, he often does so relatively capably. Despite his cowardice and his attempts to flee, he becomes a decorated war hero and rises to the rank of brigadier-general. He also meets people who either were notable at the time—such as Benjamin Disraeli and the Duke of Wellington—or who became well known after Flashman met them—such as Abraham Lincoln. Flashman either has, or tries to have, sex with most of the female characters: by the tenth book he estimates that he has had sex with 480 women. Whitman, Alden (29 July 1969). "Gen. Sir Harry Flashman and Aide Con the Experts". The New York Times. New York. p.26. Sara (Aunt Sara), sister-in-law of Count Pencherjevsky ( Flashman at the Charge). Shares violent love-making with Flashman in a Russian steam-bath. Believed to be victim of a subsequent serf rising.