Woolf had suggested that she would make an interesting story in her diary and she noted that there were no maids in her father's Dictionary of National Biography.

[1] Leonard and Virginia Woolf employed two servants at the recommendation of Roger Fry in 1916 at their home Hogarth House in Richmond.

She obtained work near Guildford where she was employed by the painter and art critic Roger Fry at his house named Durbins.

In 1916 Fry recommended to his lover's sister, Virginia Woolf, that she and her husband should employ Lottie and Nellie.

[1] Virginia thought that she would not easily find another job, but she moved soon nearby where she was employed by Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester.

Boxall would be included in the successor to her father's work, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB).

Alicia Giménez Bartlett imagined that Boxall had kept a diary and this was the basis of her work Una habitación ajena which won a Lumen Prize in 1997.

[3] In 2007 Alison Light published Mrs Woolf & the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service which includes Boxall.