[2] She was educated at South Hampstead High School and Somerville College, Oxford.
[3] That same year, she was the only woman to obtain a first class in Modern Languages in the Oxford final examinations.
[5] Kirchberger's 1927 adaptation to modern English of The Mirror of Simple Souls was published in the Orchard Spiritual Classics series, "part of the rediscovery by a newly reinvigorated English Roman Catholic intelligentsia of what they saw as their own pre-Reformation heritage".
[6] Like Evelyn Underhill before her, Kirchberger assumed its French author was male.
She tentatively identified its Middle English translator as Michael of Northburgh.