Notorious Victoria

by Mary Gabriel

  13. One of her two chauffeurs . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  14. “Ladies’ college at the Manor House”: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  15. “Woman in Agriculture” . . .: The Humanitarian, Jan. 1899.

  16. They had taken over the Manor House . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  17. “I worship my darling mother . . .”: BPL, Zula Maud Woodhull notes.

  18. “I think you are more her mother . . .”: HM, unsigned letter to Zula Maud Woodhull.

  19. The International Agricultural Club . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  20. An advertisement . . .: The Cheltenham Looker-On, April 1, 1911; Stinchcombe, n.p.

  21. The secretary of the club was . . .: Munday, p. 256.

  22. Munday set to work to attract . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.; Munday, p. 257.

  23. King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales . . .: Branch, p. 28.

  24. “Social butterfly”: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  25. “A Model School . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.; HM.

  26. Decided to revoke . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  27. One of her first acts after the outbreak . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  28. After the war ended . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  BREDON’S NORTON, JUNE 9, 1927

  Pages 310–13

  1. “Those weeds have the courage . . .”: Suzanne E. Condray interview with gardener Jack Opperman for video “To Judge by Her Heart” (1995).

  2. “I do not shake hands . . .”: BPL.

  3. Elizabeth, lonely and blind . . .: Waller, p. 11.

  4. Theodore in Paris . . .: Hibben, p. 293; Rugoff, America’s Gilded Age, p. 210.

  5. “An old man libertine” . . .: SIU, VCW notes; SIU, JBM to VCW, April 8, 1893; SIU, VCW to Tennessee Claflin, n.d.

  6. “Lady Cook & Co. . ..”: SIU; Ross, Charmers and Cranks, p. 135.

  7. “Lady Cook, the wife of . . .”: The Cheltenham Looker-On, Feb. 23, 1901, p. 177.

  8. A tour of the Ludlow Street . . .: Ross, Charmers and Cranks, p. 135.

  9. On Jan. 18, 1923, Lady Cook . . .: The New York Times, Jan. 20, 1923, p. 13.

  10. “To be buried at West . . .”: SIU, VCW notes.

  11. On her eighty-sixth birthday . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  12. Victoria had acquired an apartment . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  13. “Remarkable engineering feat”: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  14. Victoria spent her days sitting back . . .: Sachs, p. 413.

  15. “There must be no screws . . .”: SIU, VCW notes.

  16. “Byron Woodhull shall be placed . . .”: codicil to VCW’s will, held by Collyer-Bristow Solicitors, London.

  17. For Zula, she provided a fortune . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  18. “You cannot understand a man’s . . .”: BPL, VCW notes.

  19. Victoria died in her sleep . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  20. A private service was held for her . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p; certificate of cremation, held by Collyer-Bristow Solicitors, London.

  21. “Twice born, the people of genius . . .”: Sachs, p. 414.

  22. Victoria’s ashes were scattered . . .: Stinchcombe, n.p.

  23. “I retain not one ill-will . . .”: The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 11, 1927, p. 15.

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