[1] Jack Hinton, the guardsman – by Charles James Lever
[2] Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee KCVO PRA (1853 – 1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. Good friend of Edmund Blair-Leighton.
[3] Diary of a Nobody by G W Grossmith.
[4] Sleights is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It is located in the Esk Valley in the postal region of Whitby, and is part of the borough of Scarborough.
[5] Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time.
[6] Cox and Box; or, The Long-Lost Brothers, is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by F. C. Burnand and music by Arthur Sullivan, based on the 1847 farce Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton. It was Sullivan’s first successful comic opera.
The Diaries of my Great-Great-Aunt Kate 