In an X post by J.K. Rowling on August 29th, 2024 – before the publication – we found out that at least one of the epigraphs for The Hallmarked Man would come from A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham, a novel which is set on Sark in the Channel Islands. She later revealed that the epigraphs for the book would come from five different sources.
The five epigraphs authors are: Robert Browning, John Oxenham, A.E. Housman, Matthew Arnold and Albert Pike.
Book epigraph: The Worst of It by Robert Browning
All PARTS and Chapters 15, 18, 22, 25, 27, 55, 60, 66, 83, 85, 88, 95, 111, 113, 127: A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham
Chapter 1: XI, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 2: Bells and Pomegranates No. 5, A Bolton the ‘Scutcheon by Robert Browning
Chapter 3, 17, 52, 103, 108, 110: Merope: A Tragedy by Matthew Arnold
Chapters 4, 6, 12, 121: Liturgy of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Chapter 5: XVIII, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 7: XXXI: Hell Gate, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 8, 10, 14, 29, 31, 48, 50, 54, 61, 70, 81, 99, 101, 104, 117, 123: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Chapter 9: Paracelsus by Robert Browning
Chapter 11, 107: By the Fire-Side by Robert Browning
Chapter 13, 16: In a Balcony by Robert Browning
Chapter 19: IX, Last Poems by Robert Browning
Chapter 20: Second Year 1731, King Charles by Robert Browning
Chapter 21: Sohrab and Rustum, An Episode by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 23: Oedipus Coloneus, Sophocles, tr. A.E. Housman
Chapter 24, 72: The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Chapter 26: Sordello: Book of the Fifth by Robert Browning.
Chapter 28: Mr Sludge, ‘The Medium’ by Robert Browning
Chapter 30: VI, Additional Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 32: A Light Woman by Robert Browning
Chapter 33, 73: The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 34: XVII, More Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 35: Waring by Robert Browning
Chapter 36: XV, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 37, 114: Christmas-Eve by Robert Browning
Chapter 38, 97: Empedocles on Etna by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 39: The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church by Robert Browning
Chapter 40: LXII, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 42: The Last Word by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 42, 93: Bishop Blougram’s Apology by Robert Browning
Chapter 43: XVII, Additional Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 44, 75: Half-Rome by Robert Browning
Chapter 45, 59: Tristram and Iseult by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 46: XLII: The Merry Guide, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 47: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus by Robert Browning
Chapter 49: XLII: A.J.J., More Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 51: Fra Lippo Lippo by Robert Browning
Chapter 53: XXXI: Hell Gate, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 56: XXV: The Oracles, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 57: IX, Additional Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 58: A Southern Night by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 62: Dominos Hyacinthus de Archangelis by Robert Browning
Chapter 63: VI, More Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 64: Pompilia by Robert Browning
Chapter 65: XXVIII, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 67, 116: The Flight of the Duchess by Robert Browning
Chapter 68: The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 69: Self-Dependence by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 71: Balaustion’s Adventure by Robert Browning
Chapter 74: XIV: The Culprit, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 76: The Strayed Reveller by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 77: A Lovers’ Quarrel by Robert Browning
Chapter 78: XXX, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 79: Herakles by Robert Browning
Chapter 80: Euphrosyne by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 82: IV: Reveille, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 84: A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning
Chapter 86: Poor Matthias by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 87, 120: Pauline by Robert Browning
Chapter 89: XXXV, More Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 90: Sordello: Book the Second by Robert Browning
Chapter 91: The Inn Album, IV by Robert Browning
Chapter 92: IX, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 94: XXI: Brendon Hill, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 96: The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 98: VI, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 100: The Heretic’s Tragedy by Robert Browning
Chapter 102: Tertium Quid by Robert Browning
Chapter 105: XIV: The Culprit, Last Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 106: To a Friend by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 109: Aristophanes’ Apology by Robert Browning
Chapter 112: XLIX, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 115: XXXIX, More Poems by A.E. Housman
Chapter 118: Count Guido Franceschini by Robert Browning
Chapter 119: The Scholar-Gypsy by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 122: The Sick King in Bokhara by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 124: Memorial Verses: April, 1850 by Matthew Arnold
Chapter 125: XXVIII: The Welsh Marches, A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Chapter 127: Apparent Failure by Robert Browning