Details from To the Lighthouse are taken from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, first published by The Hogarth Press in 1927.
The lines from Tennyson are from “In Memoriam A.H.H.”, written by Alfred Lord Tennyson from 1833–1850.
The lines from the Tennyson commentary are from Analysis of Mr. Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” by Frederick W. Robertson, Brighton, 1862.
The lines from Virgil are from Georgic IV, written in 29 B.C.E.
The information about angels is from the writings of William of Ockham (1280–1349).
For her daily words, Sue Goyette was the necessary angel during the writing of this book.