In 1863, Elizabeth first met William when her mother brought her children on holiday from London to Blairmore on Gare Loch western Scotland.

In 1876, the two Sharp families rented houses on the Dunoon but this holiday finished in August of that year when William's father died.

Elizabeth introduced him to her friends: Adelaide Elder and Mona Alison who later married James Alexander Henryson-Caird.

In 1887, the Sharps moved from their West Kensington flat to a larger house in South Hampstead which they rented for three years and called Wescam.

[6] In the summer of 1890, Elizabeth visited a friend in South Bantaskine and then met William in North Queensferry to travel to Aberdeen and back to Edinburgh to meet family.

Elizabeth acknowledges the relationship and the effect it had on her husband's creativity partially prompting the creation of 'Fiona MacLeod' in her Memoir.

In late 1893 because of Elizabeth's relapses from malaria, the Sharps travelled to Italy and North Africa returning in February 1893.

In May 1893, Elizabeth travelled to Paris to review the art salon for the Glasgow Herald and at the end of July both Sharps went to St Andrews and Perthshire in Scotland.

[11] At this time William also undertook psychic experiments and Elizabeth felt they had a negative impact on his mental health.

From 1894 the Sharps rented a flat at Kensington Court Gardens where Elizabeth lived while William travelled between London and Bucks Green.

[12] William left for Kinghorn to recuperate while Elizabeth remained in Edinburgh keeping opening house for the students.

In 1896, Patrick Geddes published Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry as part of his 'Celtic Library' series.

[17] Throughout the Memoir she never revealed concerns about the extent of Edith's relationship with William but welcomed her co-operation in stabilising his health.

[20] In November 1904, Elizabeth and William visited America and Carolyn Hazard, President of Wellesley College, arranged for Elizabeth Sharp to tour Wellesley and Radcliffe College, and for both Sharps to call on Julia Ward Howe and to visit Fen Hall to see Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection.

In December 1905, William died while staying with Elizabeth and their friend Alexander Nelson Hood at his Castello di Maniace near Mount Etna in Sicily.

Elizabeth and William collaborated to some extent, most notably on Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry.

It includes ancient Scottish, Irish, Cornish, Manx and Breton poems as well as works by contemporary Scottish and Irish poets including Fiona MacLeod, Katharine Tynan, WB Yeats, Bliss Carman, Villiers de I'Isle-Adam and Arthur Quiller Couch.