About Annandale
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Annandale Military Academy is the fictitious school which provides the setting for the fantasy novels Rough Magicke (Bloomington, IN: Unlimited Publishing, 2005) and Like a Noise in Dreams (Bloomington, IN: Unlimited Publishing, 2015), by John William Houghton. The county of Wabana, the town of Annandale, and its eccentric early citizen, John Marshall Glenarm, were the inventions of the Hoosier author Meredith Nicholson, in his 1905 novel The House of a Thousand Candles, though Nicholson's novel has a girls school (St. Agatha's), rather than a military academy.
The main purpose of this site is to provide background information for Rough Magicke and Like a Noise in Dreams, such as a Campus Map for AMA itself as well as for Walsingham College at Oxford, explanations of some of the technical terms and campus slang used in the book, and a chart of Jonathan Mears' genealogy. Some corrections to the text of Rough Magicke have been noted here. In keeping with the long tradition of designing ideal schools, the Chapel pages actually are pretty much just what they look like. The English Department may follow . . . And there's a page about the author, with an interview and a c.v. |
Photo Credits
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The cover design of Like a Noise in Dreams is by D. Osnow; photograph of the bust of Serapis released to the public domain on Wikimedia Commons by the photographer, Marie-Lan Nguyen.
The image of the Annandale Riding Hall is derived from a photograph of the Golden Gate of Kiev, at http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~frank-natasja/html/kiev-14.html. Original image, copyright by Frank de Jong, used by permission. The image of the Memorial Building is derived from a photograph of Herstmonceux Castle, at http://www.pomian.demon.co.uk/herstmon.htm. Original image, copyright by Andrzej Lubienski, used by permission. The image of Haddam Hall is based on an antique postcard of the Carnegie Library, Culver, Indiana, at http://www.culver.lib.in.us/carnegie_postcard_1.jpg. The postcard appears to be in the public domain. The image of the Alumni Memorial Chapel shows St. Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hants., in a photograph released to the public domain by its author, Charlesdrakew, at the English Wikipedia project. |
