Captain Cuttle 1927. He died at the Mirafiori stud, near Turin in 1932 after breaking his back in a freak accident. The name "Captain Cuttle" was taken from a character in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, Captain Edward Cuttle. It was subsequently applied to an LNER Class A3 locomotive, No. 2745 (BR number 60091), many of which class were named for racehorses. Captain Cuttle Captain Cuttle was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He ran only six times in a career which was restricted by chronic injury problems. He was the outstanding British colt of his generation, winning The Derby and
Mrs. Bridge by a promise of certainties — domestic, social, cultural and sexual — which are never wholly realised and remain frustratingly elusive". "Mrs. Bridge" began as a short story, "The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge", published in the Fall 1955 issues of "The Paris Review". Both "Mrs. Bridge" and "Mr. Bridge" were republished in the United States in 2005 by Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, D.C. The fiftieth anniversary of the novel (in 2009) was celebrated with a special edition of the novel, with photographs by Laurie Simmons and an introduction by Mark Oppenheimer. Mrs. Bridge Mrs. Bridge is the debut novel