Two of EM's great-grandfathers were celebrated as writers: the literary theorist Professor Alexander Gerard
and the Rev. Archibald Alison
(father of the historian of the same name, who was also a baronet).
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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