Note 7 — Chapter IV

These were the first things she ever sold publicly. Mr. Loftie forgets the apparent fact that the two remaining designs were also published, though at a later date, for on looking through the volume of the People’s Magazine for 1873 we find on pp. 24 and 97 two of her drawings (unsigned) written up to respectively by ‘M, E.’ and ‘E. J. Ellis.’ The first illustrates a set of verses entitled ‘Nonsense about Cat’s Cradle’; the second a sort of Alice-in-Wonderland story entitled ‘Bebel,’ an ingenious rendering of a somewhat cryptic design.