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"It is fortunate for me that there is only one Moriarty."
-Sherlock Holmes, in the Edith Meiser radio play entitled "Girl with Gazelle"

"He knows by now that Moriarty lives! What he does not know is which Moriarty!"
-Bella Moriarty, in the Leslie Bricusse musical, Sherlock Holmes


Name: Belladonna Minerva Moriarty, although most know her only as Bella. She also, when it is convenient, uses the name Spellgrove.

Age: 26 (as of 1896)

Height: 5’ 9’’

Hair: dark reddish-brown

Eyes: Grey


Occupation: Currently unemployed. In the past, she has worked as a portraitist in both Paris and London.

Education: Studied mathematics at Heidelberg University. Left in 1891 to pursue a successful art career in Paris.

Family:
Father: James Robert Moriarty (deceased)
Mother: Maria Carlotta Moriarty (nee Groschli)
Sister: Maria Caroline Moriarty (deceased)

Bella also has two uncles on her father's side, Colonel James Michael Moriarty and James Thomas Moriarty. It is believed that they disapproved of the shame that Prof. James Moriarty brought upon their family, and thus refuse to acknowledge his wife and children. It has also been suggested that they are slightly at odds with the details of the professor's will, in which he left all material possessions to Maria Carlotta, Maria Caroline, and Bella.

Friends: This is a rather difficult category for Bella to discuss. Although she likes (most) people, (most) people are not fond of her. She had a few kind acquaintances during her student days, and has since had little...friendly contact with anyone other than her mother or sister.

In her musings on the past, Bella is most likely to mention the two closest friends she ever had. Alas, she has not contacted either of them for a rather long time:

Dr. Milton Milford....(known as "Milty")read mathematics with Bella at Heidelberg, avid chess player, fourth son of a minor English aristocratic family, somewhat hypocritical, married to the socially important (and uptight) Mildred. Recently got a job as a lecturer at one of Oxford's smaller colleges.

Sophia Delmare...(formerly Sophie Delmes)roomed with Bella in Paris as a fellow "starving artist." Is currently a famous Shakespearean actress on the Continent.


Enemies: Bella is rather vehemently disliked by Dr. John H. Watson, Mrs. Martha Hudson, and Inspector Giles Lestrade. This probably has to do with the fact that she attempted to frame their friend, a Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for a murder that did not in fact take place. Funnily enough, Mr. Holmes himself does not hate Bella. This confuses her a great deal.

After leaving London following the events detailed in Mr. Bricusse‘s musical, Bella has spent the past few months aimlessly wandering around the Continent. She currently lives in Meiringen, a small Swiss village. She hikes quite more frequently than is good for her, and ponders the meaning of life. She frequently wonders whether or not it would be better just to return to London.


DISCLAIMER: I am not Bella. She is the fictional creation of Mr. Leslie Bricusse and appears here only for my own amusement. I make no profit. Those who wish to enjoy Bella in all of her twisted glory should seek out a recording or production of Bricusse’s Sherlock Holmes: The Musical. I am not the lovely Liz Robertson, who portrays Bella in my icons. I also must credit two additional sources for this journal. The title, Merely a Memorandum Book is a reference to an incident in "The Final Problem." Professor Moriarty visits Holmes at his rooms on Baker Street, and, at one point in their meeting, reaches into his coat pocket. Holmes expects Moriarty to have a gun, but in fact (as he later relates to Watson), "he merely drew out a memorandum book."

Other references, either to the Canon or to the musical, will be acknowledged as they appear. I have invented a bit of a backstory for Bella, so if you see characters that neither appear in the Canon or the play, they are probably part of this new development. There are some discrepancies between Canonical and musical timelines (in the musical,the struggle at Reichenbach is in spring of 1897 instead of 1891, Holmes does not disappear for three years, etc.), so I have tried to incorporate Canonical dates into Bella's story.


Bella is a muse for the LJ communities, Theatrical Muse and Desperate Music. Feel free to stop by for a chat (if you can endure the angsty ranting). Enjoy!



(Note to all fellow muns and community mods: If you need to contact me off of LJ, my email is yvonneasimov@yahoo.com)

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