Mary Russell’s World

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mary_russell3Robert Hunt Studio LRK interviews Mary J. Russell
Mary J. Russell interviews Laurie R. King
Map and recording of Mary Russell’s San Francisco

LRK on
Mary Russell
LRK on Sherlock Holmes
England’s Teens and Twenties
The English Landscape
Dress
Great English Cooking
Technology
Transport

Ten years of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice covers and art
If Watson Were a Woman

A Russell and Holmes Timeline

For a more detailed summary, please read the Writer’s Guide to the World of Mary Russell, by Alice (aka Strawberry Curls.)

Spring 1915—Mary Russell meets the Beekeeper and becomes his Apprentice

December 1918—February 1919— Oh, Jerusalem! It’s cold in Palestine…

December 1920—Russell is drawn into a Monstrous Regiment of women

August 1923—Dorothy Ruskin brings them a Letter of Mary

September 1923—Rev Sabine Baring-Gould calls them to the Moor

November 1923—the Duke of Beauville invites them to Justice Hall

January 1924—Mycroft sends them to India to play The Game

May 1924 — They jump ship in San Francisco and end up in Locked Rooms

(June 1924 — Russell ventures south while Holmes practices The Art of Detection)

August 1924 — Home at last, struggling to learn The Language of Bees until…

September 1924 — when they meet The God of the Hive

Book Excerpts

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

A Letter of Mary

The Moor

O Jerusalem

Justice Hall

The Game

Locked Rooms

The Language of Bees

The God of the Hive

And to talk with others…

LRK Virtual Book Club

Look in on Russell’s own web site,

Or the Letters of Mary Yahoo group.

And some Holmes groups friendly to Russell are here and here.

And for fun…


Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese discuss beekeeping. Or try to.

And on a more dignified note, Arthur Conan Doyle discusses Sherlock Holmes: