Mary McKerrow

A spell at an Edinburgh boarding-school (which Mary McKerrow believes to be the origin of the one attended by Ellen in Discipline) ended when she was fifteen.

Brunton's English publisher, Longman , registered in the year of publication that the book was in great demand and very much admired on the whole, though some complain of the later part of the work...

Though Mary McKerrow calls MBforgotten in the title of her carefully-researched biography, and though Fay Weldon 's foreword says of Brunton's writing only that it continues to be a source of pleasure ....