[1][2] (Note that her Times death notice gives her father's name as Henry Stirling Wotton.
[3]) Her older brother Thomas wrote plays, and her younger sister Edith was a publisher's reader.
Zangwill introduced Wotton's work to the publisher John Lane, who accepted Day-Books for his controversial Keynotes series.
[5] Zangwill based the character Margaret Engelborne in The Mantle of Elijah on Wotton.
She knew George Egerton and Dion Boucicault, and dedicated her story collection Day-Books to Alice Meynell in "gratitute for tenderness".