[1] Józef Śliwiński (1865 – 1930) was a Polish classical pianist, one of the outstanding interpreters of the poetic and romantic repertoire, especially Chopin and Schumann.
[2] Theo by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
[3] The Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World: Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By (1861–62) – a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
[4] The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.
[5] “Bootles’ Baby. A Story of the Scarlet Lancers” by John Strange Winter, (pseud STANNARD Henrietta Eliza Vaughan) followed by “Mignon’s Secret. A Story of a Barrack Bairn” and “Mignon’s Husband. A Novel”.
[6] The Old, Old Story by Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), an English writer of about 40 domestic melodramas and few racier novels written under the pseudonym “Le Voleur.” The Old, Old Story is one of the former.
[7] “Red Dog” is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling.
[8] Becket and other Plays by Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet
[9] The Brontës in Ireland; or, facts stranger than fiction by Dr William Wright
[10] The Monks of Thelema is a novel by Walter Besant and James Rice. It was published in 1878 by Chatto & Windus, London.
[11] William the Conqueror, by Edward Augustus Freeman
[12] Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (1861 –1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
[13] A Daughter of Heth is a novel by eminent author William Black, first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low in 1871.
[14] Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur’s kingdom.
[15] Sentimental Tommy by J.M. Barrie.
[16] John Ruskin’s “Sesame and Lilies“, first published in 1865, stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women.
[17] Sweetheart Travellers: A Childs Book for Children, for Women, and For Men by S. R. Crockett.
[18] The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art was an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine published in London from 1893 until 1964. The founder and first editor was Charles Holme. The magazine exerted a major influence on the development of the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements. It was absorbed into Studio International magazine in 1964.
[19] My Poor Dick by John Strange Winter.
[20] “That Imp”, by J.S.Winter.
[21] Uncle Pierre is Général Pierre de Baeremaecker, with whom they stay in 1895 in Brussels – 1894 Brussels Diary.
[22] Faraday essay – Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) is Edward, Kate and Alys’ great-great uncle.
[23] Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894).
The Diaries of my Great-Great-Aunt Kate 