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271
   
“crack-brained absurdities,” which shocked nineteenth-century sensibilities: Quarterly Review,
July 1810, p. 523.

271
   
a fine new house around the corner from the school:
Greenwich Rates Books at GHC. The terrace is now called Gloucester Circus and the house is numbered 29. For information on building Gloucester Circus see Bonwitt, W.,
Michael Searles: a Georgian architect and surveyor
(London, 1987), pp. 20–22; Bonwitt, W., “Gloucester Circus,” in
Transactions of the Greenwich and Lewisham Antiquarian Society,
vol. 10, pp. 21–30.

271
   
“as fully competent as Mrs. Bicknell was”:
John Constable to Maria Constable, January 21, 1825, in Constable, vol. 2, p. 373.

271
   
Denning, who painted Sabrina’s picture in 1832:
“Mrs Bicknell,” by Richard James Lane, after Stephen Poyntz Denning, lithograph, 1833 (1832), NPG D22174; Richard James Lane, account books, NPG MS 56, vol. 1, pp. 34 and 36; S. P. Denning to Richard James Lane, April 1, 1833, in RJL, correspondence, NPG MS 61, vol. 1, p. 22. My thanks to Alexandra Aault, assistant curator at the NPG, for helping me to verify the sitter of the portrait as Sabrina Bicknell.

272
   
“so strong a likeness I should have recognized it”:
FB to Charles Parr Burney, May 3, 1836, in Burney, vol. 12, p. 890.

272
   
“She is, alas! much changed”:
Wood, p. 123. The sale of the contents and fittings is described in the auction catalog of the Burney School, May 14, 1839, in Miscellaneous papers relating to Greenwich, BL (Rare Books).

273
   
“I see grey hairs upon brows”:
Wood, pp. 306 and 326–27.

273
   
Sabrina died at her home in The Circus:
Death certificate of Sabrina Bicknell, September 9, 1843, GRO, 1231703–1; Will of Sabrina Bicknell, Prob 11/1986. Sabrina’s grave is plot no. 4371 in square 108. Her son John Laurens Bicknell is buried on the right of her grave and her granddaughter Mary Grant Bicknell is to the right of her father.

274
   
John Laurens Bicknell survived his mother by only two years:
Death certificate of John Laurens Bicknell, August 9, 1845, GRO 1408910–1.

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TD,
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TD,
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TD,
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TD,
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TD,
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———,
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———,
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