Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell/YMMV


 * Alas, Poor Scrappy:
 * Moral Event Horizon: Crossed by
 * Older Than They Think: The story of John Uskglass has some resemblance to an English chapbook, The Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow. In the story, Robin (aka Puck) is a Half-Human Hybrid child of Oberon whose father grants him magical powers and gives the promise of eventually holding a kingdom in Faerie. Uskglass is admittedly human by birth, but was a foster-son of Oberon.
 * Tear Jerker:
 * The description of the meal after Waterloo.
 * The Woobie: Stephen Black. The Gentleman went looking for a woobie and ended up making one.