The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)

The Adventuress of Henrietta Street was the fifty-first novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Lawrence Miles, released 5 November 2001 and featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

This novel marks Sabbath's first "official" appearance in a novel.

Publisher's summary
''On February 9, 1783, a funeral was held in the tunnels at the dead heart of London. It was the funeral of a warrior and a conjurer, a paladin and an oracle, the last of an ancient breed who'd once stood between the Earth and the bloodiest of its nightmares.''

Her name was Scarlette. Part courtesan, part sorceress, this is her history: the part she played in the Siege of Henrietta Street, and the sacrifice she made in the defence of her world.

In the year leading up to that funeral, something raw and primal ate its way through human society, from the streets of pre-Revolutionary Paris to the slave-states of America. Something that only the eighteenth century could have summoned, and against which the only line of defence was a bordello in Covent Garden.

And then there was Scarlette's accomplice, the "elemental champion" who stood alongside her in the final battle. The one they called the Doctor.

Plot
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Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Scarlette
 * Juliette Vierge
 * Lisa-Beth Lachlan
 * Katchka Nakhova
 * Rebecca Macardle
 * Tula Lui
 * Sabbath
 * Man with the Rosette
 * Nie Who
 * Anne-Belle Paley
 * Charles Fox
 * Charles Greville
 * Emily Hart
 * Émondeur
 * King of Beasts
 * Makandal

Biology

 * The Doctor briefly grows a beard to demonstrate how change is possible; he notes that he could theoretically transform himself into a being of pure light, but it would take three thousand years of concentration, so growing a beard was the simpler option.
 * Sabbath removes the Doctor's second heart.

Locations

 * The Jonah is Sabbath's steam ship.
 * People of Hartlepool are called "monkeydanglers".

Species

 * The Babewyns originated in the Kingdom of Beasts.

Continuity

 * Sabbath continues to turn up in novels (though not always the main "villain") including PROSE: Anachrophobia, History 101, Time Zero, The Last Resort.
 * The Man with the Rosette is next seen in The Gallifrey Chronicles.
 * Mary Culver appears alongside Sabbath in AUDIO: Sabbath Dei and AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat.
 * The Mayakai reappear alongside Sabbath in COMIC: Political Animals and COMIC: Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses.
 * The Hellfire Club appears also in AUDIO: Minuet in Hell.
 * The zoo on the Strand seen in the opening of this novel is later mentioned in PROSE: The Book of the War.
 * The Doctor mentions the worlds of Ceres Alpha (PROSE: Dark Progeny) and one where faerie-tales come true. (PROSE: Grimm Reality)
 * Fitz recovers a wheelchair from the TARDIS. (TV: Castrovalva)
 * Thomas Jefferson's expedition for woolly mammoths in the American midwest is seen in PROSE: Grass.
 * Scarlette mentions George III's mammoth. (PROSE: Grass, The Book of the War, COMIC: Political Animals, Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses)