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It is 1882. Jim finds Adelaide, a girl who went missing as a poor urchin during Sally's first encounter with danger, and finds that she has married into the royal family of Razkavia, a small country near Germany. However, resentment is rife within the palace, and plots develop to dethrone the family and join Germany. Only the Eagle can stop them. |
It is 1882. Jim finds Adelaide, a girl who went missing as a poor urchin during Sally's first encounter with danger, and finds that she has married into the royal family of Razkavia, a small country near Germany. However, resentment is rife within the palace, and plots develop to dethrone the family and join Germany. Only the Eagle can stop them. |
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Revision as of 12:07, 14 August 2007
Sally Lockhart is a fictional character in a series of books by Philip Pullman.
History
The character of Sally Lockhart first appears in The Ruby in the Smoke, a play Pullman wrote for performance by a secondary school. In the play, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart attempts to investigate her father's apparently accidental death. In the course of her investigation she uncovers her father's connections to the opium trade, the Indian Mutiny, and a cursed ruby.
Pullman was attracted to the story and characters so much that he rewrote the play as a children's book; he later extended the story into a series.
All four novels will be adapted by BBC Drama for television broadcast on BBC One beginning in 2006. Billie Piper has been cast in the role of Sally Lockhart[1]. The first story, The Ruby in the Smoke, aired on 27 December 2006[2].
The books
The Ruby in the Smoke
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart finds a message her late father left for her. The message convinces her that his death was not, as she had thought, accidental. She is seeking a man called Marchbanks, a place called Chatham, and a mystery called the Seven Blessings.
The Shadow in the North
It is 1879. Following a fraudulent medium's ramblings, a Scottish magician's visions, and a transport ship's disappearance, Sally finds that she must seek help from old friends, and finds herself losing all she holds dear trying to uncover the truth behind the North Star, the Steam Gun, and Bellman.
The Tiger in the Well
It is 1881. A trap has been sprung, a trap which has been in preparation for years. The barely-human Tzaddik is behind this, and his demons are far greater than anything Sally Lockhart can muster. With the law, the Tzaddik's henchmen, and luck against her, she is forced to go undercover, leaving behind her family and friends as she is sucked into the well...
The Tin Princess
It is 1882. Jim finds Adelaide, a girl who went missing as a poor urchin during Sally's first encounter with danger, and finds that she has married into the royal family of Razkavia, a small country near Germany. However, resentment is rife within the palace, and plots develop to dethrone the family and join Germany. Only the Eagle can stop them.
Character histories
Sally Lockhart
With unusually dark eyes for one so fair, this blonde is the heroine of the first three books, and her way with numbers allows her a successful career as a financial consultant, but sometimes her pride causes her to risk what she cannot bear to lose.
Sally is in all of the books, although her appearance in The Tin Princess is only brief.
In The Ruby in the Smoke, late in the story she finds out that Captain Lockhart is not her father.
Jim Taylor
A loveable Cockney ragamuffin, Jim is an avid theatregoer who loves stories and regularly falls in love. He is courageous and outgoing, and has an ability to see a person's true nature long before anyone else.
Jim is in all of the books, although his appearance in The Tiger in the Well is only brief.
Frederick Garland
A photographer with an imaginative streak, Frederick falls madly in love with Sally. He dies midway through The Shadow in the North, causing Sally to murder Bellmann.
Frederick is in The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North.
Ah Ling/Hendrik van Eeden/Tzaddik
A corrupt pirate who illegaly ships low-quality opium to Europe. Sally thought that she killed him in The Ruby in the Smoke, but did not. The bullet pierced his spinal cord, and he was paralyzed. In The Tiger in the Well, he has assumed the name "Tzaddik" and runs a prostitution enterprise throughout Europe. He also has a dybbuk servant, which is mainly just a monkey. The dybbuk is killed by the Tzaddik's valet, Michelet. He is killed in the Blackbourne River Flood.
Ah Ling/Hendrik van Eeden/Tzaddik is in The Ruby in the Smoke and The Tiger in the Well.
Trembler
He works for the Garlands. He is very nervous. He takes to Adelaide very quickly and loves her like a daughter.
Rosa
Fred's sister. She was a small-time actress, and later married a clergyman.
Becky Winter
Appears in The Tin Princess. She is employed to teach Princess (and later Queen) Adelaide German.