AFTERTHOUGHTS
1. Frances, Countess of Warwick, Afterthoughts (London: Cassell, 1931), p. 179.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., p. 180.
4. “Burlington Bertie,” a song by Harry B. Norris dating from 1900, was made famous by Vesta Tilley in her heyday as a cross-dressing music hall star.
5. Laura Beatty, Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals (London: Vintage, 2000), p. 282.
6. Ernest Dudley, The Gilded Lily (London: Odhams Press Limited, 1958), pp. 213–4.
7. Laura Beatty, op. cit., p. 302.
8. Raymond Lamont-Brown, Alice Keppel & Agnes Keyser: Edward VII’s Last Loves (Stroud, UK: Sutton Press, 2005), p. 6.