1. S.M. Ellis, ‘Sheridan Le Fanu’, The Bookman (October 1916); repr. in Mainly Victorian [1925], p. 139.
2. Prologue to Madam Crowl’s Ghost (1923).
3. Notes for a lecture on Le Fanu delivered on 16 March 1923 (King’s College, Cambridge).
4. W.J. McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), p. 243.
5. Another Bennett daughter, Jane, who married the Revd Delves Broughton, was the mother of the novelist Rhoda Broughton (b. 1840).
6. Letter of 26 December 1843; quoted by McCormack, op. cit, p. 114.
7. McCormack, p. 127.
8. ibid., p. 128.
9. M.R. James to Gwendolen McBryde, 22 June 1927.
10. See S.M. Ellis, Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu and Others (1931), p. 175.
11. Jack Sullivan, Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood (Ohio University Press, 1978), p. 11.
12. ibid.
13. E.F. Bleiler, introduction to J.S. Le Fanu: Ghost Stories and Mysteries (Dover, 1975), iii.
14. M.R. James, notes for a lecture on Le Fanu, op. cit.
15. V.S. Pritchett, The Living Novel (1946), p. 96.
1. Dr Martin Hesselius also figures in ‘Green Tea’ (p. 211) and in the Prologue to ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’ (p. 265).