After receiving frequent complaints from neighbours, Brook's parents decided that she should be married; they thought a husband would have more control over her than they commanded.
[4][6] Critic David Musselwhite points out that Nance Mockridge, Mother Cuxsom and Mrs. Goodenogh, three characters in Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, were an "avatar or surrogate of Channing.
[4] In his article published in The Times (1908), Hardy noted the lack of evidences in proving that Channing poisoned her husband.
[6] David James' play White Mercury, Brown Rice (1995) enacted the trial of Channing.
[9] The main character in John Cowper Powys' novel Maiden Castle (1937) writes a book about Mary Channing.