Victoria Cross. Photographic Portrait by Bassano Ltd. Whole-plate glass negative, 2 March 1915. ©National Portrait Gallery.
Figure 3. Victoria Cross, Frontispiece for The Woman Who Didn’t. London, John Lane, 1895.
Figure 1. “From the Queer and Yellow Book,” Punch, vol. 58, 2 February 1895, p. 58. Courtesy of The Victorian Web.
Samuel Rutherford Crockett. Photograph by Elliott & Fry. The Critic, September 1905. P. 200. Wikimedia Commons.
Caricature of S.R. Crockett. “Men of the Day No. 686: ‘The Stickit Minister.’” Vanity Fair, 5 August 1897. Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph of Charlotte Mew, c. 1900. Frontispiece for The Rambling Sailor (1929), Wikimedia Commons.
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