[Interim production] Catherine Louisa Pirkis - A Bride of a Summer’s Day

[Robin Whittleton]

Decided that instead of waiting for “Trooping with Crows” to turn up for the Pirkis Short Fiction compilation, I’d quickly tackle A Bride of a Summer’s Day as its own 47K word novel. Repo is here: https://github.com/robinwhittleton/catherine-louisa-pirkis_a-bride-of-a-summers-day, and scans are at https://archive.org/details/sim_all-the-year-round_1891-06-27_5_130. I’m currently halfway through proofreading.

As we used Manet for Loveday Brooke I had a look at other Manets for this, and In the Conservatory sticks out. I’ve uploaded it to https://standardebooks.org/artworks/edouard-manet/in-the-conservatory. Cover ends up looking like this:

[Robin Whittleton]

OK, this is ready for a review (though obviously with no assigned reviewer so I’ll let Alex assign someone first). Notes:

• I found a fair few transcription errors here but I think I’ve covered them all: I double-checked each hyphen, ran multiple spellcheck sweeps, and proofread as well as possible.
• One non-soundalike editorial change: “Kilos” -> “Kilometres”. Kilos in modern usage only refers to kilograms, so it was potentially confusing in context.
• Apart from that, a simple short novel with just the usual letters and verse.

I’ll continue now with the Short Fiction compilation.

-Robin

On 4 Apr 2026, at 11:40, Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net> wrote:

Decided that instead of waiting for “Trooping with Crows” to turn up for the Pirkis Short Fiction compilation, I’d quickly tackle A Bride of a Summer’s Day as its own 47K word novel. Repo is here: https://github.com/robinwhittleton/catherine-louisa-pirkis_a-bride-of-a-summers-day, and scans are at https://archive.org/details/sim_all-the-year-round_1891-06-27_5_130. I’m currently halfway through proofreading.

As we used Manet for Loveday Brooke I had a look at other Manets for this, and In the Conservatory sticks out. I’ve uploaded it to https://standardebooks.org/artworks/edouard-manet/in-the-conservatory. Cover ends up looking like this:

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[Alex Cabal]

OK, Emma will manage with Vince reviewing.

On 4/4/26 4:40 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Decided that instead of waiting for “Trooping with Crows” to turn up for

> the Pirkis /Short Fiction /compilation, I’d quickly tackle /A Bride of a
> Summer’s Day/ as its own 47K word novel. Repo is here: https://
> github.com/robinwhittleton/catherine-louisa-pirkis_a-bride-of-a-summers-
> day <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/catherine-louisa-pirkis_a-bride-
> of-a-summers-day>, and scans are at https://archive.org/details/sim_all-
> the-year-round_1891-06-27_5_130 <https://archive.org/details/sim_all-
> the-year-round_1891-06-27_5_130>. I’m currently halfway through
> proofreading.
>
> As we used Manet for /Loveday Brooke/ I had a look at other Manets for
> this, and /In the Conservatory/ sticks out. I’ve uploaded it to https://
> standardebooks.org/artworks/edouard-manet/in-the-conservatory <https://
> standardebooks.org/artworks/edouard-manet/in-the-conservatory>. Cover

> ends up looking like this:
>

> thumbnail_639ffb1c59a4359f1301980e6a68cfa888913f25_EBOK_portrait.jpeg
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[Robin Whittleton]

No management needed, it’s ready for review (it really is a short novel). So over to Vince then.

-Robin

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[Vince]

All reviews should be so quick, just a few trivial items.

[Robin Whittleton]

I’ve addressed all Vince’s review points apart from one that we need your adjudication on Alex: should I drop the kilos -> kilometres commit or not?

-Robin

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[Alex Cabal]

Hmm... it's not really sound alike and the meaning can be discerned from
context, so while I don't think it's a big deal we should probably just
drop it.

On 4/7/26 4:05 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> I’ve addressed all Vince’s review points apart from one that we need
> your adjudication on Alex: should I drop the kilos -> kilometres commit

> <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/catherine-louisa-pirkis_a-bride-of-
> a-summers-day/commit/76b3b4e05fa9d951f445be7742198f65fce35f8c> or not?

>
> -Robin
>
>> On 6 Apr 2026, at 22:55, Vince <vr_se...@letterboxes.org> wrote:
>>
>> All reviews should be so quick, just a few trivial items.
>>
>>> On Apr 6, 2026, at 1:59 PM, Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> No management needed, it’s ready for review (it really is a short
>>> novel). So over to Vince then.
>>>
>>> -Robin
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[Robin Whittleton]

Done! So if Vince agrees this is ready for you.

-Robin

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[Alex Cabal]

OK, looks great Robin, I've released it! Thanks!