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Query:

From Christopher Handley

The Notebooks of a Spinster Lady (London, Cassell, 1919) was published anonymously but the author is known to have been Caroline Holland. Does anyone know how the author's identity came to be revealed and if, as seems probable from internal evidence, she was the daughter, by his second marriage, of Sir Henry Holland, physician to Queen Victoria?