Gareth Russell - 19 Nov

ALSO BY GARETH RUSSELL

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Copyright 2019 by Gareth Russell

Originally published in Great Britain in 2019 as The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World by William Collins.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Russell, Gareth, author.

Title: The ship of dreams : the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the

Edwardian era / Gareth Russell.

Other titles: Darksome bounds of a failing world.

Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria Books,

2019. | Series: Atria nonfiction original hardcover | Originally

published in Great Britain in 2019 as The Darksome Bounds of a Failing

World by William CollinsT.p. verso. | Includes bibliographical

references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019005535 (print) | LCCN 2019014617 (ebook) | ISBN

9781501176746 (eBook) | ISBN 9781501176722 (hardcover) | ISBN

9781501176739 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Titanic (Steamship) | ShipwrecksNorth Atlantic

OceanHistory20th century. | Great BritainHistoryEdward VII,

19011910. | Ocean liner passengersBiography. | Social

classesHistory20th century. | Social changeHistory20th century.

Classification: LCC G530.T6 (ebook) | LCC G530.T6 R695 2019 (print) | DDC

910.9163/4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019005535

ISBN 978-1-5011-7672-2

ISBN 978-1-5011-7674-6 (ebook)

For my great-grandparents, Thomas Hutton and Elizabeth Johnston-Clarke, the first to tell me stories of the Titanic , and my father, who encouraged me to write them

And as the smart ship grew

In stature, grace, and hue,

In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.

Alien they seemed to be;

No mortal eye could see

The intimate welding of their later history,

Or sign that they were bent

By paths coincident

On being anon two halves of one august event,

Till the Spinner of the Years

Said Now! And each one hears,

And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.

Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain

(Lines on the loss of the Titanic) (1912)

THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES

• L UCY N OLLE M ARTHA L ESLIE , Countess of Rothes
• N ORMAN L ESLIE , 19 TH E ARL OF R OTHES , her husband
• M ALCOLM , V ISCOUNT L ESLIE , their eldest son, later 20th Earl of Rothes
• T HE H ONORABLE J OHN L ESLIE , their youngest son
• G LADYS C HERRY , the Earls cousin and the Countesss traveling companion
• C LEMENTINA AND T HOMAS D YER -E DWARDES , the Countesss parents
• R OBERTA (C ISSY ) M AIONI , the Countesss ladys maid

THOMAS ANDREWS

• T HOMAS A NDREWS , managing director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard
• H ELEN A NDREWS , his wife
• E LIZABETH A NDREWS , their daughter
• W ILLIAM , 1 ST L ORD P IRRIE , Thomass uncle, chairman of Harland and Wolff

THE STRAUSES

• I DA S TRAUS , a philanthropist
• I SIDOR S TRAUS , Idas husband, a former congressman for New York and co-owner of Macys department store
• E LLEN B IRD , Idas ladys maid
• J OHN F ARTHING , Isidors valet

THE THAYERS

• J OHN B ORLAND T HAYER , second vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
• M ARIAN T HAYER , his wife
• J OHN B ORLAND T HAYER III (J ACK ), their eldest child
• M ARGARET F LEMING , Marians ladys maid

DOROTHY GIBSON

• D OROTHY G IBSON , an actress
• P AULINE G IBSON , her mother
• G EORGE B ATTIER , Dorothys husband
• J ULES B RULATOUR , a movie producer and Dorothys lover
• L EONARD G IBSON , Dorothys stepfather

OTHER RELEVANT PASSENGERS

• R HODA A BBOTT , a Salvation Army officer, traveling in Third Class
• M ADELEINE AND C OLONEL J OHN J ACOB A STOR IV
• A LGERNON B ARKWORTH , a landowner from Yorkshire
• L AWRENCE B EESLEY , a science teacher, traveling in Second Class, subsequently author of The Loss of the S.S. Titanic
• M AJOR A RCHIBALD B UTT , Military Aide to President William Howard Taft
• C HARLOTTE D RAKE C ARDEZA , a socialite from Pennsylvania
• E LEANOR C ASSEBEER , returning home to New York
• E LIZABETH E USTIS AND M ARTHA S TEPHENSON , sisters and neighbors of the Thayers
• L UCY , L ADY D UFF G ORDON , a fashion designer
• C OLONEL A RCHIBALD G RACIE IV, a historian and friend of the Strauses
• J. B RUCE I SMAY , managing director of the White Star Line
• F RANCIS (F RANK ) M ILLET , a painter, author, and sculptor
• A LFRED N OURNEY , a car salesman traveling under the pseudonym of a German baron
• E MILY AND A RTHUR R YERSON , friends of the Thayers, returning home after their sons death
• F REDERIC S EWARD , a New Yorkbased lawyer and a bridge partner of Dorothy Gibsons
• W ILLIAM S LOPER , an American stockbroker who also played bridge with Dorothy Gibson
• E LEANOR AND G EORGE W IDENER , prominent members of Philadelphia Society and friends of the Thayers

RELEVANT MEMBERS OF THE CREW

• J OSEPH B OXHALL , the Titanics Fourth Officer
• H AROLD B RIDE , the Titanics junior wireless operator
• H ARRY E TCHES , a steward in First Class
• V IOLET J ESSOP , a stewardess in First Class
• T HOMAS J ONES , Able Seaman, put in charge of Lifeboat 8
• C HARLES L IGHTOLLER , the Titanic