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* What is suggested as the remains of [[Gallifrey]] is seen in this novel. | * What is suggested as the remains of [[Gallifrey]] is seen in this novel. | ||
* The novel saw Lawrence Miles' return to writing ''Doctor Who'' novels following a well-publicised online "resignation" in August 1999.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050228081424/http://planeteleven.co.uk/features/lmia/coat.php Resignation]</ref> He claimed that he wrote it for money so he could buy new [[LEGO]] sets.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060314193829/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/01/01/13690.shtml Interview: Lawrence Miles]</ref> | * The novel saw Lawrence Miles' return to writing ''Doctor Who'' novels following a well-publicised online "resignation" in August 1999.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050228081424/http://planeteleven.co.uk/features/lmia/coat.php Resignation]</ref> He claimed that he wrote it for money so he could buy new [[LEGO]] sets.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060314193829/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/01/01/13690.shtml Interview: Lawrence Miles]</ref> | ||
* A hidden page on the Faction Paradox website listed several behind-the-scenes facts about ''Adventuress''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031004111042/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk:80/street.htm A Handful of Footnotes]</ref> | |||
** The novel begins in [[1782]], which saw the first printing of ''{{w|Les Liaisons dangereuses}}'', a story about "a teenage girl's initiation into society while her destiny is manipulated by a scheming courtesan-queen and a dashing gentleman who seduces her in the name of society politics. Towards the end of the story, the gentleman finally asks the courtesan-queen to marry him. But then he dies horribly." | |||
** Though thirteen groups were invited to the wedding, only twelve were ever named or mentioned, and one name on the list of invitations was illegible. The website notes that it obviously couldn't be Faction Paradox, which "doesn't exist in this [[post-War universe|version of the universe]]"; however, the comic ''[[Political Animals (comic story)|Political Animals]]'' showed that the Faction did indeed survive the end of [[the War]]. | |||
** Given the book's "reliance on the mythology of the Docotr's universe", the website says it seems odd that no [[vampire]] contingent is invited to the Doctor's wedding. However, the group from [[Russia]] is called the [[Ereticy]], which is the name of a vampire sect from [[Eastern Europe]]an folklore, and which was represented in the novel by [[Katya (The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)|Katya]]. | |||
** The historical {{w|Lady Hamilton}}, who appears in the novel as [[Emily Hart]], indeed has a significant gap in her life story around the time of this novel, and there has never been an explanation of why she changed her name from "Lyon" to "Hart". | |||
** The [[Mozart]] premiere attended by the Eighth Doctor and Sabbath is the same one depicted in the film ''{{w|Amadeus (film)|Amadeus}}''. | |||
* In ''[[AHistory]]'', [[Lance Parkin]] acknowledges that [[Lawrence Miles]] intended the [[Man with the Rosette]] to be [[the Master]]. He is present at the Doctor's wedding; the Doctor's only family. He has no beard because the Doctor grows one, wears all black, apart from a blue and white rosette on his lapel and refuses to fight the Doctor on the grounds that there are only [[four surviving elementals|four Time Lords left]] in the Universe. | * In ''[[AHistory]]'', [[Lance Parkin]] acknowledges that [[Lawrence Miles]] intended the [[Man with the Rosette]] to be [[the Master]]. He is present at the Doctor's wedding; the Doctor's only family. He has no beard because the Doctor grows one, wears all black, apart from a blue and white rosette on his lapel and refuses to fight the Doctor on the grounds that there are only [[four surviving elementals|four Time Lords left]] in the Universe. | ||
