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Yorkshire Women’s Lives On-Line, to the present.
My thanks go to the numerous people who have helped make this book possible; if precedence is due, then it must go above all to the members of my family, the friends and associates whose encouragement and help have been paramount. They are, in no particular order: my mother, Anne Olivier Bell, my agent, Caroline Dawnay, my editor at Viking, Eleo Gordon, and my husband, William Nicholson.
I would also like to make special acknowledgement to the following people
who gave the idea for this book their blessing and helped in other ways too: Juliet Annan, A. S. Byatt, Rupert Christiansen, Richard Cohen, Margaret Drabble, Julian Fellowes, Victoria Glendinning, Valerie Grove, Selina Hastings, Lady Healey, Michael Holroyd, Hermione Lee, Kathy Robbins and Lynne Truss.
More specifically, I have had significant research assistance and time-consuming responses to my enquiries from the following: Max Arthur, Professor Norman Gates, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Fiona Hackney, Rebecca John, Raynes Minns,
Angela Neuberger, Anne Powell, Andrew and Phyllida Stewart-Roberts, Pat
Utechin, Dr Caroline Zilboorg, and especially Sybil Oldfield.
I have particularly appreciated help from the many librarians, archivists and representatives of a number of organisations who took time to respond to my queries: Pauline Adams, Fiona Bourne, Deborah Bowles, Kevin Brown, Sarah