[2] The sisters are considered to be the basis for the fictional Meyrick family in George Eliot's 1876 novel Daniel Deronda.
Caroline's uncle, Samuel Hennell, manufactured ribbons in Coventry as did the family of Charles Bray.
[4] After her marriage to Bray, an enthusiastic skeptic, her brother Charles Hennell reviewed the evidences for Christian beliefs with the aim of parrying his brother-in-law's arguments.
The result of the examination was that he became a sceptic himself, and in 1838 published an Enquiry concerning the Origin of Christianity in defence of his conclusions.
[5] In 1841 Charles Bray published The Philosophy of Necessity and this included as an appendix written by her sister Mary.