[84] Much has been written concerning the life of Little Gidding. In 1790 Mr. G. P. Peckard, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the husband of a descendant of the Ferrar family, published Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar (reprinted in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography, vol. IV). In 1828 and again in 1837 appeared Brief Memoirs of Nicholas Ferrar, by the Reverend T. M. Macdonogh (based on an unpublished Life by Bishop Turner, extracts from which had been published in The Christian Magazine in 1761). An abridgment of Peckard's Memoirs appeared in 1852. In 1855 came the most important of the works on Ferrar. It was Nicholas Ferrar, Two Lives, by J. E. B. Mayor, Cambridge. The Reverend Thomas Carter's Nicholas Ferrar, his Household and Friends, came out in 1892. In 1880 Mr. J. Henry Shorthouse described Little Gidding in chapter IV of John Inglesant. In 1896 Emma Marshall, in A Haunt of Ancient Peace, also introduced the life of Little Gidding into a fictitious narrative. In 1899 the Story Books of Little Gidding were edited by E. C. Shorland. In Archæologia for 1888 is Captain J. E. Ackland's "Catalogue of the Gidding Concordances." In Thomas Hearne's Caii Vindiciæ, vol. II, pp. 713-94, is "Remains of the Maiden-Sisters' Exercises at Little Gidding." In Bibliographica is an account of the Bindings. See also Godfrey's Social Life under the Stuarts, pp. 209-15.
[85] Carter, T. T.: Life of Nicholas Ferrar, p. 127.
[86] Bibliographica, vol. II, pp. 129-49. Article by Cyril Davenport.
[88] Monroe: Cyclopædia of Education, under "Private Schools."
[89] Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. XI, p. 279.
[90] Monroe, Paul: Cyclopædia of Education, under "Gerbier"; Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. III, p. 317.
[91] Hill, Georgiana: Women in English Life, vol. I, p. 150.