1. Elizabeth Wordsworth, Glimpses of the Past (Oxford: A. R. Mowbray [1912]), p. 160.
2. Agnes Maud Davies, p. 189; Irene Vanbrugh, To Tell My Story (London: Hutchinson, 1948), p. 8.
3. Esylt Newbery, Parson’s Daughter (London: Robert Hale, 1958), p. 21.
4. Agnes Maud Davies, pp. 49–50, 229; Sybil Oldfield, Spinsters of this Parish: The Life and Times of F. M. Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks (London: Virago, 1984), p. 16.
5. Clara Bramston’s mother had ‘continual attacks of shattering illness’ after marriage. See Clara Georgina Luard ed., The Journal of Clarissa Trant 1800–1832 (London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1925), p. 314.