[2] Sara and her sisters learned Hindustani and they also spent time in England and significantly with their maternal grandparents in Versailles.

[3] Watts enjoyed free accommodation and he became the key member of the salon that Sara and her sisters created.

Watts painted and then married the actress Ellen Terry but the marriage lasted less than a year.

Few records remain of the salon[1] but Ellen Terry met Disraeli and Gladstone[4] and Julia's protographs of people include Robert Browning, William Thackery, Dante Rossetti, John Ruskin, James Whistler, Alfred Tennyson, Leslie Stephen and the resident houseguest G. F. Watts.

The Little Holland House salon is said to be the precursor for the later more influential Bloomsbury Group with several interlinking characters.