“And Christabel? Is anything known about her in June 1859?” “There’s nothing at all in the Archive. Nothing until Blanche dies in 1860. Do you think—?” “What happened to Blanche?” “She drowned herself. She jumped from the bridge, at Putney—with her clothes wetted and her pockets full of big round stones. To make sure. She’s on record as admiring the heroism of Mary Wollstonecraft’s suicide attempt from the same bridge. She obviously noted that Wollstonecraft found it hard to sink, because of her clothes floating.”
