Phaeton (carriage) Roger Button, Benjamin's father, owns a phaeton that is his primary mode of transportation until Benjamin buys the first automobile in Baltimore. In Susannah Kells' novel "Fallen Angels", a phaeton is the transportation of choice for the main character, Campion, who later crashes the carriage in a perfect example of its dangerous and fickle reputation. The character Mr. Spenlow from the novel "David Copperfield" dies suddenly of a heart attack while driving his phaeton home. Henry James, in his short story "An International Episode" (1878) has Lord Lambeth driven through town in "a little basket-phaeton" by his companion Bessie Aldon.
HMS Phaeton (1782) up. The Nagasaki Harbour Incident plays a role in the novel "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" by David Mitchell. However this depiction is highly fictionalised; the ship in the novel is "HMS Phoebus", the incident occurs in 1800 and finding no Dutch ships the "Phoebus" of the novel bombards Dejima. The Nagasaki Harbour Incident plays a role in the novel "Blood of Tyrants" by Naomi Novik. This depiction is historical fantasy; the Japanese sink HMS "Phaeton" with dragons stationed at Nagasaki at the time. Notes Citations References HMS Phaeton (1782) HMS "Phaeton" was a 38-gun, "Minerva"-class fifth rate