[1] She and Swinburne secretly collaborated on her second book, "Children of the Chapel", which was about a ten year old chorister in the 16th century.

Colonel Robert William Disney Leith (later General) had lost an arm, gained a bullet and several sabre cuts during the Siege of Multan in 1849.

[1] Her husband who was then a General and a Companion of the Bath, died at their home, Northcourt on the Isle of Wight, on 20th June 1892.

[5] Her last three novels were part of a family saga advocating Christian values and knowing your place.

[6] They were all anonymous as distinct from her 1917 work which remains well known under her nom de plume of "Mrs. Disney Leith".

The Boyhood of Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in America and London, was based on her memories and their surviving letters.