Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet | Abbots Langley | St Mary Abbots | John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke | Hemingford Abbots | Abbots Bromley | Verney Junction railway station | Verney Junction | Verney Baronets | Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon | Sir Harry Verney, 4th Baronet | Sir Harry Verney | Sir Edmund Verney, 3rd Baronet | Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney | Ralph Verney, 1st Earl Verney | John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh | Frances Parthenope Verney | Compton Verney House | Abbots Ripton | Abbots Morton | Abbots Bromley Horn Dance |
The historican C V Wedgwood wrote the preface to a 1960 edition of the book, in which she reveals that the novel was written partly at the instigation of Macaulay's publisher, John Murray, who had asked for something to shed light on the background to her first novel, Abbots Verney (1906).