The Virgin Who Humbled Lord Haslemere by Anna Bradley

Author’s Notes

Evan Andrews. Eight Unusual Good Luck Charms: Symbols, Amulets and Other Talismans from Around the Globe. Feb. 2018, updated March 2020. https://www.history.com/news/eight-unusual-good-luck-charms.

Dr. William Cadogan was a prominent eighteenth-century London doctor who became governor of the London Foundling Hospital in 1749, and physician in 1752. http://www.bshpch.com/18th-century.html.

Romola Davenport, Leonard Schwarz, and Jeremy Boulton. The Decline of Adult Smallpox in Eighteenth-Century London. Economic History Review, Nov. 2011. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4373148/.

Caitlin Dempsey. Dissected Maps: The First Jigsaw Puzzles. Nov. 2015. https://www.geographyrealm.com/dissected-maps-the-first-jigsaw-puzzles/.

The Faro Ladies, a close-knit group of friends who ran gambling dens out of their own homes, were an institution in 1790s London. The three most infamous Faro Ladies were Lady Sarah Archer, Albinia Hobart (later Lady Buckinghamshire), and Lady Elizabeth Luttrell.

Cliveden House is located in Maidenhead, Kent, less than four miles to the west of the gamekeeper’s cottage in Burham. Benedict and Georgiana likely wouldn’t have passed Cliveden House on their route from London to Oxfordshire, but the author found the beauty and history of the house too tempting to resist. https://www.clivedenhouse.co.uk/the-house/.