Literary References/An Echo in the Bone

Chapter	Source 	Reference
1 	 	Matthew 27:35Matthew 27:35, King James Version. Accessed 4 September 2015. / John 19:24John 19:24, King James Version. Accessed 4 September 2015.
1 	 	Lord John paraphrases the verse: "And for his vesture, they cast lots."
4 	 	"" (also known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'​Twas the Night Before Christmas") (1823)
4 	 	Claire quotes the poem at the wake for Mrs. Bug and Grannie MacLeod: "The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow, / Gave the luster of mid-day to objects below..."
4 	 	(1624)
4 	 	Jamie and Claire discuss Meditation XVII: "No man is an island, entire of itself..."
4 	 	Psalm 23
4 	 	Claire sings the psalm in Gaelic at Mrs. Bug's funeral: "Is e Dia fèin a’s buachaill dhomh" (The Lord is my shepherd.)"Is e Dia fèin a’s buachaill dhomh" (Psalm 23). Accessed 19 April 2015
11 	(editor) 	"An Cath Nach Tainig (The Battle to Come)"from the , vol. I (1900)
11 	(editor) 	Jamie blesses Claire before she leaves to deliver Lizzie's second child.
11 	(editor) 	"Bride Ban-Cobhair (Bride the Aid-Woman)""Bride Ban-Cobhair (Bride the Aid-Woman)": Seasons. Carmina Gadelica, via The Internet Archive. Accessed 29 April 2015.from the , vol. I (1900)
11 	(editor) 	Jamie prays for Lizzie and her unborn child.
11 	 	Job 5:7
11 	 	Jamie considers the meaning of the verse while walking to the Beardsleys' cabin: "Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward."
12 	 	"" from (1892)
12 	 	Claire recalls the poem while taking her leave of Fraser's Ridge."I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee loud glade. 
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, [...]" — via
18 	 	"" (1968)
18 	 	Claire quotes a line from the song to Jamie: "We don't only sing but we dance / Just as good as we walk."
19 	 	"" (1791)
19 	 	Chapter title
27 	 	(1865)
27 	 	Brianna likens her harrowing journey through the tunnel to Alice falling down the White Rabbit's hole.
29 	 	(1775)A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, by Samuel Johnson: "Of the Earse language, as I understand nothing, I cannot say more than I have been told. It is the rude speech of a barbarous people, who had few thoughts to express, and were content, as they conceived grossly, to be grossly understood." Accessed 6 May 2015.
29 	 	Roger talks to Mr. Menzies about Jem's punishment for speaking the "barbarous Erse" at school.
30 	 	, Part III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, IV (1863)Tales of a Wayside Inn, Part III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, IV. Accessed 15 April 2015.
30 	 	Chapter title: "Ships That Pass in the Night"
30 	 	"" (1895)
30 	 	Claire thinks of the first lines of the poem while observing Jamie's ability to keep calm in dire circumstances: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you ..."
30 	 	"" (1826)
30 	 	Claire quotes the first lines of the poem while Jamie and John Smith consider their options as an unknown ship approaches the Pitt: "The boy stood on the burning deck/ Whence all but he had fled ..."
30 	 	The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, vol. ii. p. 147 (1761)Oliver Goldsmith via WikiquoteThe Art of Poetry on a New Plan – page 147 of full text. Accessed 6 May 2015.
30 	 	Captain Asa Hickman uses the saying to convey the reasoning for his plan of action regarding Captain Stebbings and the Teal: "For he who fights and runs away/ May live to fight another day"
30 	(music) (lyrics) 	"Long Ago (and Far Away)" (1944)
30 	(music) (lyrics) 	Claire quotes the song title when she and Jamie recall Mr. Willoughby.
32 	Prayer cycle in the 	, third Nocturne of MatinsA Hypertext Book of Hours – prepared by Glenn Gunhouse. Accessed 6 May 2015.
32 	Prayer cycle in the 	Lord John quotes the line to Harry Quarry to explain concisely his troubled thoughts: "Timor mortis conturbat me" ("The fear of death disturbs me").
34 	Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 	The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, "Directory for Worship" (1901)The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America – accessed 12 May 2015.
34 	Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 	Roger quotes the Constitution of the American Presbyterian Church.
34 	 	(1978)
34 	 	Roger and Brianna use the name of the BBC radio show to refer to the guide to time travel that they start writing.
34 	 	Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (1966)
34 	 	Brianna notices a few new history books that Roger bought.
34 	 	A Narrative of a Revolutionary SoldierThough the original text was published in 1830, this title was used for the 2001 edition of the narrative. Roger would likely have ordered a copy called Private Yankee Doodle, or some other edition published by 1980.
34 	 	Brianna notices a few new history books that Roger bought.
36 	H. Ranger 	(1757-1795)
36 	H. Ranger 	William thinks of his copy of the annual directory whilst journeying through the .
36 	 	(405 BC)
36 	 	William quotes the frogs' refrain while wandering through the swamp: "Brek-ek-ek-ex, co-ax, co-ax. Brek-ek-ek-ex, co-ax!"
46 	(editor) 	"Eolas Chnamh Chir (The Cud Chewing Charm)""Eolas Chnamh Chir (The Cud Chewing Charm)", page 140, via The Internet Archive. Accessed 11 May 2015.from the , vol. II (1900)
46 	(editor) 	Roger reads aloud from the Carmina Gadelica.
46 	(editor) 	"Eolas A Mheirbhein (The Indigestion Spell)""Eolas A Mheirbhein (The Indigestion Spell)", page 138, via The Internet Archive. Accessed 11 May 2015.from the , vol. II (1900)
46 	(editor) 	Roger reads aloud from the Carmina Gadelica.
46 	(editor) 	"Duan an Daoil (Poem of the Beetle)""Duan an Daoil (Poem of the Beetle)", page 192, via The Internet Archive. Accessed 11 May 2015.from the , vol. II (1900)
46 	(editor) 	Roger reads aloud from the Carmina Gadelica.
46 	(collector) James Carmichael Watson (editor)	"An Eala Bhàn (The White Swan)""An Eala Bhàn (The White Swan)": Glòir nan Eun (The Speech of Birds). Accessed 11 May 2015.Carmina Gadelica – metadata. Accessed 11 May 2015.from the , vol. IV (1941)
46 	(collector) James Carmichael Watson (editor)	Roger reads aloud from the Carmina Gadelica.
47 	 	Song of Solomon 8:6Song of Solomon 8:6, King James Version. Accessed 11 May 2015.
47 	 	The quotation comes to Roger as he feels jealousy hearing Rob Cameron sing: "Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire"
52 	 	(ca. 1599)
52 	 	Claire compares Mrs. Raven to .
57 	 	Matthew 24:20Matthew 24:20, King James Version. Accessed 12 May 2015.
57 	 	Claire thinks of the verse while considering the refugees from : "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day"
58 	 	, Act I, Scene iv, Line 16 (ca. 1599)
58 	 	Lord John mutters the beginning of the line after Percy Wainwright makes a remark about the power of honesty: "More honored in the breach..."Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 4. Accessed 16 December 2017.
58 	 	, Act IV, Scene i, Line 79 (1606)Macbeth: Act 4, Scene 1 – accessed 12 May 2015.
58 	 	Percy Wainwright uses the line to describe the difference between Lord John and the Baron Amandine, ascribing the quote to the former: "Bloody, bold, and resolute"
59 	 	Matthew 27:51Matthew 27:51, King James Version. Accessed 12 May 2015.
59 	 	The sentiment of the line comes to William when a letter arrives for from : "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent ..."
61 	 	, Vol. I (1759)
61 	 	Jamie finds a copy of the first volume, abandoned, and brings it to give to Claire. Jamie reads aloud a sentence from Chapter 3.XVI: "So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,—both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his wit—as his Resistance."THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN By Laurence Sterne, via Project Gutenberg.
62 	 	Genesis 18:24Genesis 18:24, King James Version. Accessed 12 May 2015.
62 	 	Jamie quotes the passage to Claire to explain how he feels about the loss of his finger: "Wilt thou not destroy the city, for the sake of fifty just men?"
64 	 	"" from (1855)Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning. Accessed 12 May 2015.
64 	 	In response to 's question about the philosophy of endeavor, Jamie quotes the lines, which he had heard from Claire: "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?"
64 	 	, Volume 1 (1828)Tales of a grandfather: being stories taken from Scottish history, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott, via Google Books. Accessed 12 May 2015.
64 	 	Claire references the legend about and the spider to illustrate how even some small thing can have a huge influence.
65 	/ 	(1775) / Jack Absolute series
65 	/ 	A Welsh lieutenant named Absolute calls to William across a field about a game of hazard. The character is named as a nod to C.C. Humphreys' Jack Absolute series, whose title character is in turn based on the main character of the Sheridan play The Rivals.
74 	 	"" from Poems (1919)
74 	 	Claire quotes the lines to Andrew Bell as they see about fixing the leakage of Brigadier General Simon Fraser's coffin: "And saw the skull beneath the skin; / And breastless creatures under ground / Leaned backward with a lipless grin."
74 	 	(1865)"Chapter 12: Alice's Evidence" from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Accessed 22 May 2015.
74 	 	Claire thinks of the line as she struggles to begin writing her book: "Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
75 	 	Job 7:10Job 7:10, King James Version. Accessed 22 May 2015.
75 	 	Claire thinks of the line during Brigadier General Simon Fraser's burial: "And his place will know him no more."
76 	 	Psalm 22:17Psalm 22:17, King James Version. Accessed 22 May 2015.
76 	 	Claire thinks of the line when she sees how the elder Ian's illness has ravaged his body: "I can count all my bones . . ."
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