Books & Magazines
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A Child's History of England - Claire tries to recall what little she can remember reading about Scottish history as a child in her tattered brown copy of this book (DIA, chapter 36) Charles Dickens wrote a three volume series of books with this name. Dickens' books only dealt with English history up to 1689, but had one final chapter summarising events between 1689 and 1853 when the book was written. It seems likely that Claire's book was the Dickens book as Claire notes that it had only a two-page section on the Jacobite Rising.
A Scientific Treatise on Methods of Farming - by Sir Walter O'Bannion Reilly. This is the book Ian Senior sends away for when Claire tells them to plant potatoes (DIA, chapter 31)
A Scientific Treatise on Methods of Farming - by Sir Walter O'Bannion Reilly. This is the book Ian Senior sends away for when Claire tells them to plant potatoes (DIA, chapter 31)
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Cameron - Reverend Wakefield goes to check in Cameron to verify if the Duke of Sandringham was a Jacobite (Outlander, chapter 12)
Collected Works of Frank Randall - Claire describes these as five hardbound volumes of 500-600 pages each excluding index and illustrations (DIA, chapter 1) One of the volumes is called The Jacobites (V, chapter 3)
Collected Works of Frank Randall - Claire describes these as five hardbound volumes of 500-600 pages each excluding index and illustrations (DIA, chapter 1) One of the volumes is called The Jacobites (V, chapter 3)
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Fanny Hill - refer to Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Forrester's - the journal that Jamie produced while working as a printer in Edinburgh was called Forrester's (V, chapter 21)
Forrester's - the journal that Jamie produced while working as a printer in Edinburgh was called Forrester's (V, chapter 21)
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Grey's Anatomy - When Claire bites down on Fergus's finger when she mistakes him for an attacker, she recalls a passage from Grey's Anatomy which states that the human jaw can exert over three hundred pounds of force (V, chapter 31) Gray's Anatomy (note the spelling) is a textbook of human anatomy written by Henry Gray in 1858, which is still in publication today, many editions later. Either Claire is remembering an alternate universe version of the book written by Grey instead of Gray, or the spelling in Voyager is incorrect
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Highland Legends - Brianna finds a legend called 'Leap O' the Cask' which tells the story of the Dunbonnet in a book of Highland legends in the Highland Clans library (V, chapter 3)
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Journal of the AMA - Claire is surprised to learn that Joe Abernathy reads romance novels, thinking he reads nothing but Lancet and the Journal of the AMA (V, chapter 18) The AMA is the American Medical Association
Journals - the Reverend Wakefield kept a daily journal and they were all stored in boxes in his garage (DIA, chapter 4) The line that Roger finds in a book suggesting that Jamie did not die at Culloden originally came from the journal of Lord Melton (V, chapter 7)
Journals - the Reverend Wakefield kept a daily journal and they were all stored in boxes in his garage (DIA, chapter 4) The line that Roger finds in a book suggesting that Jamie did not die at Culloden originally came from the journal of Lord Melton (V, chapter 7)
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La Nouvelle Heloise - by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Lord John has this book on his shelves at Ardsmuir and Jamie picks it up to read while waiting for John (V, chapter 10) The full title of the book is Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise. It was published in 1761.
Lancet - Claire is surprised to learn that Joe Abernathy reads romance novels, thinking he reads nothing but Lancet and the Journal of the AMA (V, chapter 18) The Lancet is a UK medical journal
Law is a Bottomless Pit - Ned Gowan quotes this after concluding Jamie's settlement with Laoghaire (V, chapter 38) This is the title of a satirical pamphlet written by John Arbuthnot in 1712
Le Grimoire d'le Comte St Germain - a handbook of magic that Geillie owns (Outlander, chapter 24)
Lives of the Saints - a book Mother Hildegarde was given on her Saint's Day when she was 8 years old. She was inspired by the story of St Anselm to become a nun (DIA, chapter 15)
Lancet - Claire is surprised to learn that Joe Abernathy reads romance novels, thinking he reads nothing but Lancet and the Journal of the AMA (V, chapter 18) The Lancet is a UK medical journal
Law is a Bottomless Pit - Ned Gowan quotes this after concluding Jamie's settlement with Laoghaire (V, chapter 38) This is the title of a satirical pamphlet written by John Arbuthnot in 1712
Le Grimoire d'le Comte St Germain - a handbook of magic that Geillie owns (Outlander, chapter 24)
Lives of the Saints - a book Mother Hildegarde was given on her Saint's Day when she was 8 years old. She was inspired by the story of St Anselm to become a nun (DIA, chapter 15)
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - by John Cleland. This is the book Jamie is reading when he gets the call to drive Lord and Lady Dunsany to Ellesmere (V, chapter 15) The book is commonly referred to as Fanny Hill, and it is considered to be the first English pornographic novel. It was published in 1748
Mrs McClintock's Receipts for Cookery and Pastry-Work - Jenny uses this cookbook when she makes a hare pie (V, chapter 5) This is a real book. It was first published in 1736 and was Scotland's first published cookbook
My Weekly Magazine - Roger notes that Fiona's reading material is limited to My Weekly Magazine (V, chapter 7) My Weekly Magazine is a Scottish magazine for women containing short stories, reader contributions, knitting or sewing patterns, and celebrity gossip
Mrs McClintock's Receipts for Cookery and Pastry-Work - Jenny uses this cookbook when she makes a hare pie (V, chapter 5) This is a real book. It was first published in 1736 and was Scotland's first published cookbook
My Weekly Magazine - Roger notes that Fiona's reading material is limited to My Weekly Magazine (V, chapter 7) My Weekly Magazine is a Scottish magazine for women containing short stories, reader contributions, knitting or sewing patterns, and celebrity gossip
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National Geographic - When Claire sees the sharks attack the cask of spoiled horsemeat thrown over the side of the Artemis she thinks that it is much more striking than the photos in National Geographic (V, chapter 44)
New England Journal of Medicine - Joe Abernathy is surprised to learn that Claire reads romance novels, thinking she reads nothing but the New England Journal of Medicine (V, chapter 18)
New England Journal of Medicine - Joe Abernathy is surprised to learn that Claire reads romance novels, thinking she reads nothing but the New England Journal of Medicine (V, chapter 18)
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - Claire used to read this to Brianna when she was three (V, chapter 42) This book is by Dr Seuss, but it wasn't published until 1960 and Bree was 12 years old by then!
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Pamela - by Samuel Richardson. This is one of the books Jamie read while living in the cave. He and John Grey discuss the book at Ardsmuir (V, chapter 11) The full title of the book is, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. It is a two volume work published in 1740
Patriots - by Woodhill. This is a book that Frank owns, being a series of profiles of the American Founding Fathers. Frank compares Claire's passion for medicine to the passion the Founding Fathers had, and warns Claire that they paid a price for that passion (V, chapter 7) I have not been able to find any evidence that this is a real book
Physician's Guide and Handbook - Claire finds this book in Davie Beaton's surgery at Castle Leoch (Outlander, chapter 7)
Patriots - by Woodhill. This is a book that Frank owns, being a series of profiles of the American Founding Fathers. Frank compares Claire's passion for medicine to the passion the Founding Fathers had, and warns Claire that they paid a price for that passion (V, chapter 7) I have not been able to find any evidence that this is a real book
Physician's Guide and Handbook - Claire finds this book in Davie Beaton's surgery at Castle Leoch (Outlander, chapter 7)
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Robinson Crusoe - by Daniel Defoe. Jared smuggles this book to Jamie and he reads it while living in his cave (V, chapter 6) This is one of the stories that Jamie tells the Ardsmuir prisoners from memory, and their favourite (V, chapter 8) The full title of the book is The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and it was first published in 1719
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Studies in Gastroenterology - Claire thumbs through an old copy of this journal before picking up The Impetuous Pirate (V, chapter 18)
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Tables of Skeletal Variance - Joe Abernathy uses this book to prove that there are differences between the leg bones of white people and black people (V, chapter 20) I do not know if this is a real book
The Adventures of Roderick Random - by Tobias Smollett. This is one of the stories that Jamie tells the Ardsmuir prisoners from memory (V, chapter 8)
The Bible - Jamie owns a small Bible that belonged to a prisoner called Alex McGregor who hung himself after having a 'private conversation' with Jack Randall (Outlander, chapter 22) The Fraser family Bible has all the marriages, birth and deaths of the family recorded at the front, beginning with the marriage of Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie. Underneath that entry Brian Fraser has written 'Marrit for love' (V, chapter 5)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - by Henry Fielding. This is one of the stories that Jamie tells the Ardsmuir prisoners from memory (V, chapter 8)
The Impetuous Pirate - the name of the badly written romance novel that Claire picks up to read while waiting until her first surgical patient wakes from anaesthetic. Claire and Joe Abernathy bond over this novel and this marks the start of their friendship. The main characters in the novel are Tessa and Valdez (V, chapter 18)
The Prince in the Heather - by Eric Linklater. This is a real book. It tells the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape after Culloden and includes the passage about one man named Fraser from the Master of Lovat's regiment escaping the slaughter at Culloden. This is the passage that Roger reads to Claire to convince her that Jamie did not die at Culloden (V, chapter 2)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Claire used to read this to Brianna when she was three years old (V, chapter 42) It is a Norwegian fairy tale
Time - Claire thumbs through an old copy of Time magazine before picking up The Impetuous Pirate (V, chapter 18)
The Adventures of Roderick Random - by Tobias Smollett. This is one of the stories that Jamie tells the Ardsmuir prisoners from memory (V, chapter 8)
The Bible - Jamie owns a small Bible that belonged to a prisoner called Alex McGregor who hung himself after having a 'private conversation' with Jack Randall (Outlander, chapter 22) The Fraser family Bible has all the marriages, birth and deaths of the family recorded at the front, beginning with the marriage of Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie. Underneath that entry Brian Fraser has written 'Marrit for love' (V, chapter 5)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - by Henry Fielding. This is one of the stories that Jamie tells the Ardsmuir prisoners from memory (V, chapter 8)
The Impetuous Pirate - the name of the badly written romance novel that Claire picks up to read while waiting until her first surgical patient wakes from anaesthetic. Claire and Joe Abernathy bond over this novel and this marks the start of their friendship. The main characters in the novel are Tessa and Valdez (V, chapter 18)
The Prince in the Heather - by Eric Linklater. This is a real book. It tells the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape after Culloden and includes the passage about one man named Fraser from the Master of Lovat's regiment escaping the slaughter at Culloden. This is the passage that Roger reads to Claire to convince her that Jamie did not die at Culloden (V, chapter 2)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Claire used to read this to Brianna when she was three years old (V, chapter 42) It is a Norwegian fairy tale
Time - Claire thumbs through an old copy of Time magazine before picking up The Impetuous Pirate (V, chapter 18)
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US News and World Report - Joe Abernathy is reading a copy of US News and World Report in the doctor's lounge on the day he and Claire begin their friendship with a discussion of romantic novels (V, chapter 18) US News and World Report was a weekly magazine
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Watchtower - Claire thumbs through a stack of Watchtower tracts before picking up The Impetuous Pirate (V, chapter 18) Watchtower is a religious magazine produced by Jehovah's Witnesses