Talk:Eleanor Bull

Listing her appearance as Direct is something of a judgment call. The only appearance by a character who could be her is one sentence on page 235 which reads "The proprietress showed Sheriff Norris, Lope, and his soldiers into a room with a bed, a long table, and a bench next to the table." If you want to really split hairs, it could be that she isn't even alive in the story, as she died 2 years prior in OTL. The place is called "Eleanor Bull's ordinary" but that could be a name memorialising the deceased original owner. But since HT explicitly identifies Don Diego Flores de Valdes and Robert Greene as being alive a few years after their OTL natural deaths, I'm comfortable assuming the same for Eleanor Bull.

The OTL information as to whether she was the bartender as well as the owner is pretty contradictory, as it all based on conflicting eyewitness accounts of Marlowe's OTL death, which is probably the only reason history knows of her. Again, judgment call.JonathanMarkoff (talk) 21:42, December 29, 2015 (UTC)