Allusions To Other Works
- Arthur is said to have read Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Jabberwocky, as well as Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid out to Imogen when she was a child.
- Flavia mentions Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and George Sand when she asks M. Roux about intellectual women.
- Schemetzkin plays some Chopin after the first dinner.
- Music is also mentioned by Arthur, with Erlking.
- Miss Broadwood compares the children's dialogue to something out of Maurice Maeterlinck.
- Flavia is said to have garned information from others about the Barbizon school and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.
- Flavia compares her husband to Banquo, from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
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