MB
's sister, Caroline
, was appointed a maid of honour to the new queen consort, Queen Adelaide
.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Boyle
Her elder sister, Caroline Boyle
, was nicknamed Caddy
.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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MB
's sister Caroline was the one to bear the nickname The Hon, not Mary as Dickens
thought.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Travel
Mary Boyle
MB
, her mother
, her sister Caroline
, and her brother Courtenay
travelled to Turin, where they met her brother Charles
. They then toured Italy.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.