[1] Agatha Shore (1878-1950) studied at the Slade between 1898-1901 and exhibited at the New English Art Club. She married a professor of physiology at Cambridge and then exhibited regularly with local artists.
[2] The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith. Published 1895. It repeats the theme of Lord Ormont – that a wife is free to leave a husband who does not recognize her as an equal.
[3] Robert Brough (1872 – 1905) was an extremely successful and promising portrait painter and illustrator before his early death in a train accident. He attended art school in Aberdeen before studying in Edinburgh and in Paris. In 1897 Brough moved to London and became a friend and protégé of John Singer Sargent.
[4] The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. This was the twelfth comic opera collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Diaries of my Great-Great-Aunt Kate 