# Dedication explained — The White Company

> Chapter companion for The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle.

## What happens

The author dedicates the book to the hope of the future reunion of the English-speaking races, presenting this chronicle of their common ancestry.

## Themes in this chapter

### English National Identity

The dedication explicitly invokes the common ancestry and future reunion of English-speaking peoples.

## Key lines

> To the hope of the future The reunion of the English-speaking races this little chronicle of our common ancestry is inscribed South Norwood September 29, 1891

This book is dedicated to the optimistic vision of a future where English-speaking peoples are reunited, as a record of their shared heritage.

_The author frames the story as a tribute to Anglo-Saxon unity._

## Links

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