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Originally Posted by Victoria
I realize it’s dangerous to rely on Wikipedia, but it sounds like she first fabricated, and then borrowed what served her case. According to Wikipedia, the Rose of Raby Grant was quoting from doesn’t even exist, nor the history book he read.
“Both Tanner's history and the novel are non-existent. It has been suggested that the title of the latter is derived from Guy Paget's 1937 biography of the same name.”
When I looked, I only found one other book entitled Rose of Raby, but it was published in 2011.
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Yes, I investigated those books at the time I was reading, given that the book gives no indication of containing excerpts from another author's work. They were by Tey herself, I am quite sure, and appear nowhere except within Tey's book.