2. The Times, 7, 17 February 1855.
3. Quoted in Douglas, I, pp. 376–377.
4. NA, FO 519/168.
5. Ibid.
6. Glasgow Herald, 14 July 1858.
7. NA, FO 519/168.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Malmesbury, Earl of, Memoirs of an Ex-Minister: an Autobiography of the Right Hon. The Earl of Malmesbury (London, Longmans Green and Company, 1884), I, p. 496.
11. NA, FO 519/168.
12. WSA, 2057/F8/V/B/1390.
13. Quoted in Douglas, I, p. 334.
13 The Grande Dame
1. Blount, pp. 265–266.
2. Graves, Gertrude Montague, Reminiscences of the Family of Captain John Fowle of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston, Press of David Clapp & Son, 1891), p. 27.
3. NA, FO 519/168.
4. Quoted in Vandam, Albert D., Undercurrents of the Second Empire: Notes and Recollections (London, William Heinemann, 1897), p. 364.
5. Norfolk Chronicle, 6 January 1866.
6. NA, FO 519/168.
7. Bury and Norwich Post, 23 April 1867.
14 A Mere Point of Etiquette
1. Quoted in Séguin, Philippe, Louis-Napoléon le Grand (Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1990), p. 394.
2. Gordon, p. 233.
3. Ibid., pp. 233–234.
4. NA, FO 146/1531.
5. NA, FO 146/1484.
6. Labouchere, pp. 89, 183–184.
7. NA, FO 146/1483.
8. Labouchere, p. 199.
9. Daily News, 23 December 1870; The Times, 20 December 1870.
10. NA, FO 146/1514.
11. NA, FO 146/1530.
12. NA, FO 146/1510.
13. Blount, pp. 192–212.
15 La Semaine Sanglante
1. NA, FO 146/1515.
2. Blount, pp. 227–228.
3. NA, FO 146/1871; FO 146/1532.
4. Command Paper 427, 18 August 1871.
5. NA, FO 146/1534.
6. Ibid.
7. NA, FO 146/1535.
8. Ibid.
9. Quoted in Legh, I, p. 386.
10. Edwin Child. Quoted in Horne, p. 478.
11. Morning Advertiser, 29 July 1871.
12. The Times, 19 August 1871.
16 The Ménage-à-Trois
1. UR, Autobiography of Mrs Smith.
2. The Times, 16 January 1873.
17 Madame and the General
1. Chudleigh, p. 336.
18 The Eye-Doll House
1. Flint, p. 138.
2. Chudleigh, p. 257.
3. UR, quoted in ‘Notes on the Lyne Stephenses of Grove House’.
4. Quoted in Pollen, Anne, Mother Mabel Digby: A Biography of the Superior General of the Sacred Heart, 1835–1911 (London, John Murray, 1914), p. 117.
5. Flint, p. 140.
6. The Tablet, 15 July 1905.
7. DN, original letter used by permission.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. OLEM, undated MS letter.
13. Scott, A Sermon, pp. 16–18.
14. DN, original letter used by permission.
15. Cambridge Chronicle, 1 July 1887.
16. Quoted in Rogers, pp. 110–111.
17. Forster, E. M. The Longest Journey (London, Penguin edition,1960), pp. 63–64.
18. DN, original letter used by permission.
19. Scott, The Story of the Building of the Church.
20. Scott, A Sermon, p. 16.
19 Penal Servitude
1. Simon Little, Lefays Fine Arts, 2013.
2. DN, original letter used by permission.
3. Cambridge Chronicle, 10 May 1889.
4. Croucher, p. 59.
5. DN, original letter used by permission.
20 First Great Grief
1. DN, original letter used by permission.
2. Croucher, pp. 58–61.
3. Cambridge Chronicle, 17 October 1890.
4. DN, original letter used by permission.
5. Ibid.
6. UR, Autobiography of Mrs Smith.
7. DN, original letter used by permission.
21 That Tearless Cry
1. DN, original letter used by permission.
22 A Solitary Dove
1. Pym, Horace, pp. 143–145, 151–160.
2. Scott, A Sermon, pp. 19–20.
3. Ibid., pp. 11–13.
4. UR, Autobiography of Mrs Smith.
5. Riddell, pp. 475–476.
6. Pall Mall Gazette, 11 September 1895.
7. Cambridge Independent Press, 11 October 1890.
23 The Precious Boy
1. The Universe, quoted in Rayner, p. 196.
2. UR, Memoirs of Mrs Smith.
3. NGA, NG7/181/20.
4. NGA, NG7/182/1.
5. Pym, Horace, pp. 143–160.
6. UR, Memoirs of Mrs Smith.
7. NA, WO 339/92736.
8. Ibid.
24 The Long Wait Ends
1. Sale particulars, Lynford Hall, May 1895.
25 The Legacy
1. Flint, pp. 140–141.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I should like to thank Sir Henry and Lady Mary Bedingfeld, who gave me access to the Lyne Stephens and Claremont papers, as well as providing generous hospitality at Oxburgh Hall; Ivor Guest, who shared his research into the dancing years of Pauline Duvernay; Gilly King, History and Heritage Adviser at the University of Roehampton; Philip Wilkins, who introduced me to the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge; Christophe Rizoud, Caroline Pacheco and Johanna Zhang of AXA who showed me around the Hôtel de La Vaupalière (Hôtel Molé) in Paris; Lady Sarah Backhouse, for providing a great deal of information; Monica Jenks, who provided copies of family letters in her possession; Davina Crookes and Colin Veitch, for taking photographs; and Clive and Heather Toomer, for the loan of a vast quantity of books.
I should also like to thank Alan Crookham and Ceri Brough of the National Gallery Archive; Suzanne Higgott and Carys Lewis of the Wallace Collection; Roger Ward, historian of Chicksands Priory; Brin Dunsire, archivist of the Diocese of Northampton; Simon Little of Lefays Fine Arts; Richard Peroni and Bob and Christine Branch of the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs; and Father Bennie Noonan of the church of St Francis in Shefford.
I am grateful to Clare Owen and the Amberley team for their faith in this book, and to Lady Sarah Backhouse, Dr Hilary Custance Green, Dr Jean Shennan, Clive Toomer, and Professor Gareth Williams for reading the manuscript and for their many constructive comments. Finally – as always – my thanks to my husband Paul Beck for his support and encouragement, his help and company on most of my travels, and his tolerance as I immersed myself in the life of Yolande Lyne Stephens. I owe him far more than these words can express.
The author and publisher would like to thank the following people/organisations for permission to use copyright material in this book: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Archives for permission to quote from Queen Victoria’s Journals; Penguin Random House Canada (Alfred A. Knopf) and the Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge, and the Society of Authors as the E. M. Forster Estate for permission to quote from The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster. Thanks are also due to Archives Nationales, Paris; Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge; Guildhall Library, Corporation of London; National Gallery Archive, London; North Devon Record Office; Northampton Diocesan A
rchives; University of Roehampton Archives and Special Collections; West Sussex Record Office; and Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. I am also grateful to Sir Henry Bedingfeld, Monica Jenks, Charles Lyne, Douglas Lyne, and John Lyne for permission to quote from letters and papers in their possession.
For permission to reproduce illustrations, I should like to thank AXA; Bibliotèque nationale de France; Friends of Chicksands Priory; John Hagger; Geoff Halsall; Bob Jones; John Lyne; National Portrait Gallery; Our Lady and the English Martyrs; Photography by Davina; Royal Collection Trust; Society of the Sacred Heart; Victoria and Albert Museum; and University of Roehampton.
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1. © Bibliotèque nationale de France.
3. © Bibliotèque nationale de France.
4. Published in Louis Véron by Eugène de Mirecourt, Paris, 1855.
5. © Robert Allen.
6. © M. R. Lopez.
7–8. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015.
9. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
10. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015.
12. © Friends of Chicksands Priory.
13. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
14–16. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
17. © Society of the Sacred Heart (England and Wales Provincial Archives).
18–19. © Archives and Special Collections, University of Roehampton.
20. © Jenifer Roberts.
21. © Jenifer Roberts, reproduced by permission of Sir Henry Bedingfeld.
22. Published in Select Views of London by John B. Papworth, 1816.
25. Reproduced by permission of Sir Henry Bedingfeld.
27–29. Reproduced by permission of AXA.
30. © John Lyne.
33–34. Published in Country Life magazine, 28 November 1903.
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52. © Geoff Halsall.
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