Gothic Weddings and Performing Vampires: Geneviève Ward and The Lady of the Shroud
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Personal Reminiscences, Stoker relates the marital adventure of the American actress-manager Geneviève Ward. ‘Whilst a very young girl’, Ward had married the Comte de Guerbel in a civil ceremony in Nice in 1855 (1906, vol. 2: 170). Her husband argued that, according to Russian law, the union was not legal until another ceremony was performed in a Russian Orthodox church. After the Nice nuptials, de Guerbel had promised to solemnize the union in the Russian church in Paris. However, the Comte was not, notes Stoker, ‘of chivalrous nature’ and ‘in time his fancy veered round to some other quarter, and he declared by a trick of Russian law which does not acknowledge the marriage of a Russian until the ceremony in the Russian church has been performed, the marriage which had taken place was not legal’ (1906, vol. 2: 170–1). After waiting several months and on the discovery that de Guerbel was making marriage preparations with a Russian heiress, the well-connected Wards decided to take action.1 The rejected bride and her mother subsequently travelled to St Petersburg to petition the Tsar who, at Ward’s request, commanded de Guerbel to solemnize the marriage in Warsaw.2
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".