Mary Jane Holmes

Writing by SJD suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne and Defoe . She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay and Mary Jane Holmes .

Perhaps most important for Ella, however, was her mother 's influence and guidance, and the reading of every magazine she could lay her hands on, together with works by Ouida , Mary J. Holmes ...